Hello World
The first post — how this blog was built and what to expect.
Ted ·
Welcome to the blog. This site is built with Astro 5, Tailwind CSS, and MDX. Posts live in src/content/posts/ and deploy to Vercel on every push to master.
What’s wired up
- MDX with syntax highlighting via Shiki (tokyo-night theme)
- RSS feed at
/rss.xml - Custom sitemap at
/sitemap.xml— no@astrojs/sitemap(crashes on Astro 4.16+) - Tag pages at
/tags/:tag - Inter + JetBrains Mono fonts via fontsource (zero Google Fonts requests)
- Full SEO meta, Open Graph, Twitter Card on every page
Adding a post
Drop a .md or .mdx file in src/content/posts/your-slug.md:
---
title: Your Post Title
description: One sentence summary for meta and listing page.
pubDate: 2026-04-27
tags: [tag1, tag2]
draft: false
---Set draft: true to write without publishing. Push to master to deploy.