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First Post — Why I Finally Built This Site

After years of saying "I should have a portfolio", I actually did it. Here's why and how.

Every Cloud Engineer I know has a dozen half-finished side projects scattered across private GitHub repos. This site is my attempt to fix that.

The goal

Three things:

  1. Projects — somewhere to document what I actually built, not just a list of repo names
  2. Blog — a place to write down things I figured out, mostly for future me
  3. CV — a digital resume that doesn’t live in a Word document from 2019

The stack

I picked Astro because it ships zero JavaScript by default and treats Markdown as a first-class citizen. The whole thing builds to static HTML, deploys to GitHub Pages automatically on push, and costs nothing to run.

Writing a new post is git commit && git push. No CMS, no dashboard, no subscription.

What’s next

Fill in the actual content. The projects page is already waiting.