Published May 25, 2026

Restarting This Site

Why I scrapped the old bilingual blog scaffold and what the new site is for.

Why the old site didn't survive

Having a code skeleton is not the same as shipping a product. The original Astro bilingual blog scaffold never had dependencies installed. Sunk cost is zero, so tearing it down is the easiest call.

What the new site is for

Three parallel sections:

  1. Projects — past products and research
  2. Writing — long reads, monthly
  3. Podcast — conversations and audio notes

Cadence: every two weeks. Short reads first, ship on done.

Governance

Content, assets, and decisions all live in this one repo. design-system/ is the rule, lib/ + components/ is the implementation — they must move in the same commit.