Rebuilding My Personal Site in 2026

My personal site has been untouched for about 5 years. It was a single-page jQuery thing with a grid of old Android projects, half of which don’t even exist anymore. The “About Me” section literally said “Coming soon.”

I’ve been sending people to this site on my email signature, my LinkedIn, my GitHub profile. It was embarrassing.

Why now?

I’ve been building API Alerts for a while now and I needed somewhere to write about it. Not on the API Alerts blog, that’s for product stuff. I wanted a personal dev log where I could just say “hey I built this thing this week” without it needing to be a polished article.

My personal site was the obvious place for that. Except it looked like it was from 2015.

Why Astro?

I’ve been using Astro for everything lately. apialerts.com, hooks.apialerts.com, hapi.apialerts.com. Blog posts are just markdown files in a folder. The build spits out static HTML and I deploy it to Firebase. Done.

I’m not a web developer. I’m a native Android/iOS dev who keeps accidentally building websites. Astro makes that surprisingly painless.

What’s on here

• Homepage with what I’m currently working on
• Blog for writing stuff down
• Projects page with everything I’ve built
• About page featuring Earl (my cat)

I also pulled over some older posts that were scattered across Medium, Ghost, and various other places I’ve written over the years. Backdated them to roughly when they were originally written. This is the consolidated home for all of it now. One place for my dev log, mostly thoughts shouted into the void.

That’s it. No overthinking it. If I actually use this, great. If it sits here for another 5 years, at least it looks better than the old one.