Hello, world.
First post on the new site. A bit about what to expect here going forward.
I finally got around to rebuilding this site. The old version was a template called “vCard Personal Portfolio” — decent for a first pass, but full of placeholder cruft I never cleaned up, tabs I never used, and an aesthetic I’d outgrown.
The new one is built with Astro, deployed on a Fedora droplet via GitHub Actions and rsync, and served by Caddy. No CMS, no PHP, no plugins to keep patched. Every post is a Markdown file in this repo.
What I plan to write about
- Engineering notes from Spring Hosting — real problems, real fixes.
- Solution-architecture posts: how I’d design X, and what I’d trade off.
- Game-dev progress on the metroidvania I’m building with Vicky.
- Occasional short posts about tooling, Linux, or whatever I’ve been chewing on that week.
The RSS feed is at /rss.xml if you’d like to follow along that way.
What the site looks like
Three themes: Solar (default — a golden-hour palette), Dark, and Light. The toggle is in the top-right of every page. Your choice persists in localStorage, so once you pick one it sticks.
If you spot a bug or a typo, ping me at ahmad@aakhalid.com.