bencuan.me v6
This year marked a major shift in design philosophy. In every past iteration, the website was the focus in itself, raising the opportunity to figure out the limits of my design/engineering abilities at the time. But this time around, the redesign was purely functional. I have actual real content for once, and it needs a place to live!
With that in mind, I prioritized engineering design over visual design for this year's makeover. The primary goals were twofold:
- Find a build system that I could stick with for years to come, regardless of website content or structure
- Make a platform to publish content on (blog posts, recipes, and so on)
I ended up going with Astro and am really enjoying it! It's easily the fastest and most flexible SSG I've tried so far (beating out all of Gatsby, Eleventy, Jekyll, and Hugo) given that it can mix and match most of the popular templating languages.
For more info, see the colophon.
Anyways, I have big plans for the future of this website-- hope y'all enjoyed this version while it lasted :)