Hello World v2

A few years ago I set up a blog with Hugo. I wrote a handful of posts, got busy with university and work, and forgot it even existed. I’m sorry, old blog website.

Now that I’m currently finishing my studies at ZHAW and thinking about rounding up my skill set, I figured it was time to do this properly. After some research, I landed on Astro as the foundation for the new site. Here’s to a new website that I will hopefully not neglect again.

Why Astro?

Honestly? Just by a whim. I saw internet people talking about Astro, got curious enough to check it out, and really liked its features which made it feel like a modern Hugo. It’s possible to integrate different frontend frameworks via the so-called Islands architecture and extend it further by dynamic behavior using TypeScript. Furthermore, it has excellent support for Markdown content, which was something I very much appreciated about Hugo. All of this made Astro feel like a natural fit for me, and I’m looking forward to experimenting with it over time.

The result is this site: built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Cloudflare Pages (which is free btw!), and connected to my domain adrianmartinez.ch.

What to expect

I’m planning to write about things I’m learning, projects I’m building, and topics in software engineering that interest me. There won’t be a fixed schedule - I will write whenever I get inspiration or have time to spare.