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Published on June 20, 2026
Hello, world — and why I rebuilt this site
#astro
#personal
#web
I rebuilt this website from scratch. The old version had a full content management system humming away in the background — and for a personal site, that was overkill.
I’m a developer. I don’t need an admin panel to write a paragraph. So now the whole thing is plain Astro, statically generated, and fast as it should be.
What changed
- No database, no CMS — just files.
- Pages are hand-coded; the blog is Markdown.
- Everything is in three languages: English, Spanish and Dutch.
More importantly, it feels like mine again. That’s the point.