This site

The site you're reading. Built to be added to for years without becoming a maintenance burden.

The constraint#

Most personal sites die the same way. Adding a post means editing component code, so friction rises quietly until publishing stops being worth the evening it costs. Treating content as data rather than code removes that.

Adding an entry here is one file:

npm run new writing "The thing I learned"

That writes a Markdown file with valid frontmatter. Nothing else needs to change. The listing page, the tag index, the sitemap and the RSS feed all pick it up from the filesystem on the next build.

Validated frontmatter#

Every collection has a Zod schema. A bad date or a missing field fails the build with the file named, instead of rendering a broken page:

export const projectSchema = base.extend({
  status: z
    .enum(["active", "shipped", "archived", "experiment"])
    .default("active"),
  repo: z.string().url().optional(),
  tech: z.array(z.string().min(1)).default([]),
});

That single guarantee is what makes the site safe to leave alone for six months at a time.

Why static export#

output: "export" means every page is pre-rendered HTML. The same out/ directory deploys to GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify or Vercel without a code change, so switching hosts costs one DNS record. No server needs patching and no runtime goes stale.