After years of putting it off, I finally rebuilt my personal site from scratch.
The old site was a single-page HTML/CSS thing that hadn’t been touched in ages. This new version is built with Astro 5, Tailwind CSS v4, and Content Collections for the blog and projects. View Transitions make page navigation feel smooth without any client-side JS framework overhead.
The design is intentionally minimal - dark background, accent pink, monospace for anything code-adjacent. I wanted something that felt like a developer’s site without being a gimmick.
More posts coming. For now, the code is at github.com/rmerk.