Restart
After two false starts, a different approach: ship a small thing, write before perfecting.
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This is the third version of this site. The previous two attempted progressively more elaborate platforms — first Remix on Cloudflare Pages with a D1-backed admin editor, then React Router 7 with a GitHub-sync webhook pipeline — and each one published progressively less actual writing. Three demo posts after two builds is a pattern, and the pattern is platform-before-content.
The new approach: Astro, with content in MDX files. No database, no admin UI, no sync scripts. The site is a folder of markdown files and a thin layer of components around them. Publishing means committing a file.
If this post is here, the publish flow works. That’s the only platform milestone worth celebrating before the second real post lands.