I’ve been meaning to do this for about three years. Every project I finish leaves behind a trail of notes — half in a scratch file, half in commit messages, most of it lost. This is the place those go now.
What lives here
Two collections, both plain markdown:
- Writing is the long-form stuff: what broke, what I tried, what actually worked.
- Projects is the index of things themselves, each with a status so you can tell what’s alive.
Nothing here is a tutorial. If something reads like advice, treat it as a note-to-self that escaped.
How the site works
Every post is a markdown file in src/content/blog/. Frontmatter drives everything — the title,
the date, the tags, even the colour the card picks up on the index page:
---
title: Hello, world
description: A short summary for cards and search results.
date: 2026-07-16
tags: ["meta", "astro"]
featured: true
accent: orange
---If I don’t set accent, the card hashes the filename and picks a colour deterministically, so a
post keeps the same colour everywhere it appears. That was the one bit of the design I fussed
over most and nobody will ever notice.
The writing rule
Write it while it’s still annoying. The frustration is the useful part — once a problem is solved it becomes obvious, and obvious things make terrible posts.
That’s the whole editorial policy.
What’s next
I’m going to backfill a few of the older projects, then let it accumulate. If you want the updates without checking back, the RSS feed has everything.