Welcome to the new blog

Why from scratch

The old blog lived on Jekyll on GitHub Pages. It worked, but it felt like a generic template - the kind where typography is “default,” color is “default,” and layout is “default.” Reading became functional, but not pleasant.

I started from a question: what makes a page worth staying on, worth reading to the end? The answer - one that looks like a book. A narrow column of text. A serif with character. Quiet around it. A drop cap at the start of a chapter, so the eye has somewhere to catch its breath. Whatever distracts simply doesn’t exist here.

What changed under the hood

The new stack:

• Astro 5 - generates static pages, zero JavaScript at runtime (apart from two small things: the theme toggle and scroll-spy).
• Cloudflare Pages instead of GitHub Pages - faster edge, preview deployments, cookieless web analytics.
• Markdown + MDX in src/content/posts/, with schema validation.
• Self-hosted typography: Fraunces (variable), IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Mono.

What’s next

A few old posts are coming back in a new form - curated, not wholesale. A few are waiting to be rewritten. The rest - if you feel they’ve vanished for good, they probably weren’t that important to you.

If you have something to say: find me on GitHub, and the RSS feed lives at /en/rss.xml. There are no comments here - this isn’t an arena.

Read slowly.