Hello, world

2026-05-17 · meta, astro

This is the first post on the new site.

The site is built with Astro and MDX, deployed to a Hetzner box via the same ./deploy.sh script we set up in Phase 1. The “image is the only artifact” contract still holds — astro build produces a dist/ folder, the Dockerfile bundles it with a tiny Node static server, and the resulting OCI image is what ships.

Why MDX

Because plain Markdown is too plain and full JSX is too much. MDX is just Markdown where you can drop a component in when the writing needs more than text:

import Demo from '../../components/Demo.astro';

Some prose, and then:

<Demo prop="value" />

That’s it. Going to use this to ship long-form posts, small interactive demos, and eventually link out to MeshMaker.