Blog · July 2026
Why I rebuilt my portfolio with Astro
Islands architecture explained through the decisions behind this very website — zero JS until something needs to be interactive.
- astro
- performance
My old portfolio shipped 400KB of JavaScript to display text.
This one ships none by default. Pages are static HTML; interactivity (the galaxy hero) loads as an isolated island that hydrates independently.
More soon — this post exists so the blog list page isn’t lonely.