Hello, world (and how this site works)

Welcome to my corner of the internet. This is a sample post — I’ll replace it with real writing soon — but it doubles as documentation for how the site works.

The stack

The whole site is static. It’s built with Astro, hosted on GitHub Pages, and served from my own domain. There’s no server, no database, and no hosting bill.

Every post here is just a Markdown file. When I push a new .md file to GitHub, an action rebuilds the site and the post appears at its own URL about a minute later.

Comments and likes without a backend

Comments are powered by Giscus, which stores everything in this repo’s GitHub Discussions. If you react to a post with a 👍 or ❤️, that’s the “like” system — also free, also spam-resistant, because you sign in with GitHub.

Try the terminal

This site has a working terminal. Press the </code> key (or Ctrl+Kfor the command palette) and typehelp. There may or may not be a hidden command involving sudo`.

More soon — probably something about fuzzing Rust binaries or predicting glaucoma progression from retinal scans, depending on which rabbit hole I fall into first.