Personal blog of a developer trying to learn all the things.

Rodney Littles, II

Built with Astro. Theme: Solid State by HTML5 UP, vendored under public/assets/.

• Node 24 (see .nvmrc). Astro 7 requires Node 22.12 or newer.

npm ci            # install
npm run dev       # dev server at http://localhost:4321
npm run build     # static build to dist/
npm run preview   # serve dist/
npm run check     # astro check (types + templates)

Create src/content/posts/topic/<slug>.md. The slug becomes the URL: /posts/topic/<slug>/.

---
title: "Post title"
published: 2026-01-31
drafted: 2026-01-15      # optional
edited: 2026-02-01       # optional
tags:
  - Reactive Extensions
  - C#
draft: false             # true hides the post from the site and feed
---

• Posts with a future published date, or draft: true, are not built.
• Images go in public/images/ and are referenced as /images/<file>.
• Tags are grouped case-insensitively. Tag URLs are lower case, replace spaces with -, drop a leading ., and turn # into sharp (.NET Foundation becomes /tags/net-foundation/, C# becomes /tags/csharp/). Netlify normalizes URLs to lower case, so this keeps canonical links one hop free.
• Static pages live in src/content/pages/ and render at /<id>/. Add a nav entry in src/site.ts.
• Frontmatter is validated by the schema in src/content.config.ts.

GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/publish.yml) builds on every push to main and draft/* and on pull requests. Pushes to main deploy dist/ to Netlify with netlify-cli using the NETLIFY_TOKEN secret. Pull requests from this repository get a preview deploy aliased pr-<number>.