Moving this site to Astro

A few years back I started with the idea to give this site a facelift. I had read somewhere that everyone now reads the internet on their phone and that designs therefore should be “mobile first”.

This sounded great to my ears! I got started with buying a new domain where I could A/B test my site (just for me, but still). I had set up the GitHub Actions to deploy the dev branch of the site to the new dev domain. And I still had no idea what I actually wanted. The things I thought were fun were done; now the greatest problem had arrived: designing the actual website.

Long story short: it looked like shit. There probably is some code somewhere from this redesign attempt, but it would not keep me up at night if it were all thrown into the void. I gave up.

Skip to now: I am a better developer (I think), I am wiser (still a point of discussion), and I am older (this one is for certain). And I have had of this thing called Astro. I had a static site that I never touched, and I thought it would be fun to write some stuff (and my thoughts) down somewhere where absolutely no one would read it. So I got started.

First off: ask AI what the hell Astro is and how I can set up a page. Then figure out how to move everything. Then once again give up, open Claude, and ask it to migrate this whole thing from old shit to new shiny shit. It blew through my tokens in 30 minutes, and I was not going to pay more than I already was, so I went to bed and forgot about the project for a few days.

But today I got back. I launched VS Code, looked at the complete nonsense that Claude had written in the blog posts, quickly fixed some things that Claude broke or misinterpreted and pushed it all.

And now we’re here. Now what?