I built this website in April 2026 using Astro 6, Tailwind CSS 4 and MDX to create a high-performance blog that bridges the gap between academic research and modern web standards. My stack centers on a Vite 7-powered pipeline optimized with Terser and astro-compress. By integrating remark-math and rehype-katex, you can see beautifully rendered math. I also have a RSS feed with a beautiful xsl.
The entire lifecycle, from transforming content collections to final minification and deployment to GitHub Pages, is orchestrated via make utilizing exiftool and gh to ensure a lean, production-ready build.
Rather than inheriting the legacy overhead of al-folio or similar, I spent three days engineering a custom solution tailored to my specific needs. Building from scratch ensured total control over the stack, and while it took a few more days to iron out the finer details, I’m happy with the result. I hope you like it, too!