sorinmircea.com site revamp

Having a personal website seems very enticing for me as it is a great way people can have a glimpse into who you are, both professionally and as a person.

Starting with 2017 I had the first version live, I basically found a one page template online and tweaked it to my liking.

The next switch was when I moved to ghost, an open source blogging platform. That’s when I decided that I need a better way to structure my projects (there are quite a few of them but unfortunately they always end up in a deprecated state, so writing a bit about the stack I’ve used and overall technical decision is just a nicer way of archiving them).

That didn’t suffice it and after a few years I was eager for a change and this time my criteria were:

• less is more; I want a clutter free modern UI, like in a CV, every line counts
• less is more; keeping the page size to a minimum is as important as possible
• content should be writable in markdown, in this way I can use Obsidian to write my articles from anywhere
• easy deployment; publishing a new article should be a breeze, otherwise I will simply not do it

The result

I went with using Astro for building out a super fast static website where all the content is taken from a markdown version of my articles. The website is automatically rebuilt at every git commit and deployed on Cloudfare Pages.