heya! welcome to my brand new site.

first, some background. my original site (source code here) was made with plain HTML and CSS, with a tiny amount of JS for Plausible and a support notice. it was lightweight - and towards the end I felt it ended up looking fine - but I wasn’t 100% happy with it, and it certainly wasn’t the nicest thing to maintain. I wasn’t exactly desperate to switch to, say, React though - this site isn’t exactly complex, so the performance overhead wasn’t really worthwhile to me.

I’m not 1000% sure when/where I first tried Astro, but I found it very nice to use. I’d been considering using it for my site for a little while, but I put it off… until recently, when we used it for Upryzing’s landing page. at that point I was convinced, and in late June I got started. I had hoped to finish this in time for the start of the month, but alas.

…but not to worry - it’s here now! apart from the revamped design, this new site is much nicer to maintain, adapts considerably better to smaller screen sizes and has some cool new features… like this blog! I’m not entirely certain what I’ll use this for, but I think it’ll be useful in the future.

so yeah. welcome! if you notice any issues or have any suggestions, feel free to open an issue. I hope you like it :3