Personal Site
The writing home for my essays, notes, projects, and older Medium archive.
Overview
This site is the home base for my writing: polished blogs, working notes, project writeups, and older Medium pieces I am gradually bringing back under my own roof.
The design is deliberately plain. The point is to make the writing and the ideas feel calm, readable, and personal, with a small Mithila-inspired visual identity instead of a heavy portfolio shell.
Tech stack
- Framework: Astro
- Styling: Tailwind CSS v4
- Content: MDX + Astro Content Collections
- Diagrams: Mermaid
- Comments: Giscus (GitHub Discussions)
- Analytics: Google Analytics, with Plausible support kept available
- Hosting: Netlify
What I learned
Personal sites become interesting once they stop being a portfolio checklist and start becoming a writing system.
The important parts here are not flashy components. They are the editorial structures: notes versus blogs, drafts versus published posts, tag pages, Medium archive links, comments, analytics, and enough routing discipline that the site can keep growing without becoming annoying to maintain.