Emery’s Blog

This is the first post! Welcome to my blog! Hopefully you’ll stay for future posts!

I plan on writing about miscellanious topics. Typically technical, but anything that I would like to get my opinion out on is fair game.

The tech for this blog is pretty nice. It’s built using Astro, and a goal for this site is ZERO client side javascript being necessary. I’d like for this to be a very fast loading site, to let you get to the amazing content faster.

I plan to open source the repo soon. It’s currently in a Github repository, built using Github Actions, and deployed to Cloudflare Workers. After I push to main, it takes about 10 seconds for new changes to be live.

Locally, the writing experience is very smooth. A bun command is configured to watch for changes, and anything I modify is updated practically instantly, and live reloads in the browser.

In the future, I plan on updating the styling for this blog to be ‘dark mode’ esque. Since I don’t plan on having anything client-side, I might just make it the new default. I could potentially also convince myself to use Astro’s live islands feature. We’ll see. For now, I really enjoy the minimalism.

Anyway, thanks for checking out this first post! More to come!