Astro is Great, Actually

I've been building personal websites long enough to have opinions about Bootstrap 2. Not nostalgia — opinions. It was the right tool for 2013, it held its ground on IE, and if you think that's funny you've never debugged a flexbox fallback at 1am for a browser that predates flexbox. Since then: CRA when I wanted to play with the fancy React hooks, Next.js when Next.js was the new hotness, Tailwind the moment I learned it existed (and it never left), Vite when I wanted a cleaner foundation. The through-line is Tailwind and .tsx. That's where I live. Everything else is negotiable. I Wanted to Write Things Down Dev.to was the obvious first move. It's where dev content lives, the tooling is fine, the audience is there. So I started writing there. And then I wanted to write about other things. Keyboards. Thoughts that don't resolve into a tutorial. Life, vaguely. Dev.to technically allows it — some people are fine with that — but it never felt right. Dev.to is for dev content. Personal stuf