Test Post; Please Ignore

Hi! I have created this blog as a place to try some new things related to web development. I don’t have any particular technologies in mind at the outset, though I can say that this blog as a whole is powered by Astro and I am using Typescript with it. The site is hosted on Netlify on their Free tier.

So far, my experience with Astro has been fairly good. Their tutorial on setting up a blog is helpful, though I wish there was a little more material— I am hopeful that that boils down to my lack of looking. Astro seems to have many possible integrations, and a lot of flexibility in how you compose posts. Important to me is the ability to use JS in markdown posts, and to compose everything in a regular IDE (like VS Code). I have a Wordpress blog, as well, but I did not like the limitations/UI of working within a visual CMS like that. Importantly, though, is understanding that I am not knowledgeable to say one is better than the other.

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We will see how Typescript (TS) goes. I have not done so much JS yet that I need to get into TS, and I want to take that at its own pace once I have wrangled Astro (and just designing the site).

Far more foreboding is the notion of writing content! My belief is that by getting out of the Wordpress editor I’ll be able to more freely type, and spend less time fiddling with various buttons and settings. One thing I really want to setup is differentiated post types: Long-form and short-form. I don’t think that short posts (a couple hundred characters) should have to follow the same layout as more traditional long-form posts, and can just appear in a sidebar of the main page. Similar to a twitter feed. Sometimes I just want to share a link without writing a million lines.

I would also like to get code blocks incorporated into this blog, with code highlighting for a custom Markdown syntax extension (as used by the Homebrewery).

That’s it for now— just a little progress, and a lot of hopes.