Redesign: Content Migration

Well, moving everything over from Eleventy to Astro is a little trickier than I first imagined. I’ve spent the last two days moving content around, updating the frontmatter, learning about Astro’s approach to CSS. It certainly is liberating to write a bunch of CSS in a file and it be automatically scoped to the HTML in that same file, without it leaking out into other things.

Like if I write...

body {
background: red;
}

Then only the <body> element on that page will be red. That’s just neato.

There have been some cases where the styles accidentally bleed into other pages but I expect that’s a bug? This is definitely a project that’s in early access.

But I do worry that buying into the Astro ecosystem is not a great long term solution for my site. If this project dies or goes away, I’ll have to migrate all this content again to whatever new way of building a blog is. There’s a lot of trust I’m putting into the folks building this thing.