Hello — the New Site Is Live
Hello — the New Site Is Live Jimmy ChenThis is the first post on the new site, meant to shake out the skeleton: heading levels, code blocks, links, and tags all get a run-through here.
Why I moved to Astro
The old site ran on VitePress, which is great for documentation but a poor fit for the shape I wanted — a brand landing page plus a blog plus a set of bolted-on sub-sites. Astro 5’s Content Layer makes content sources far more flexible, and the SSG output is clean.
A few highlights
- Traditional Chinese at the bare root, English under an
/en/prefix (the A1 routing scheme). - Light and dark modes, manual toggle, no flash on first paint.
- Colors and spacing all go through the tokens in
DESIGN.md— no magic hex scattered around.
What publishing looks like
Posts live at content/blog/YYYY/<slug>.md, and the frontmatter needs at least title, pubDate, and description:
---
title: Title
pubDate: 2026-07-24
description: A one-line description
tags:
- example
---
The body supports standard Markdown, including inline code and blocks:
export function slugOf(id: string): string {
return id.split('/').pop() ?? id;
}
What’s next
Down the road I’ll gradually import the old posts from Blogger and add links to my résumé and the film-brain sub-site. First, let’s get the skeleton standing solid.