lukeonline - src/content/blog/210726.md

--- title: lukeonline - Astro Edition? desc: That lasted a while date: 2026-07-21 slug: "210726" --- Not much to say here, other than that I have decided to rewrite this site in Astro! I've picked up a disdain in recent weeks for websites which rely purely on non-free JavaScript to run, and shortly thereafter remembered that my site was one of those. On-top of that, I also just like the idea of having a site which is considerably more performant than a react application. I've also pushed it up to [GitHub](https://github.com/LukePJ25/lukeonline)! Feel free to browse the source and do as you please (as is permitted by the license, that is). I've dropped photo searching as I'm yet to figure out a decent way of implementing it in Astro (this is all very new to me), along with the fact that it's generally not a necessary feature and was becoming a pain to maintain. I might bring it back eventually. I'd also like to write a custom blog renderer like what I had on the previous website. What you're reading right now was translated from Markdown into HTML using the built-in Astro renderer, but it comes with a few quirks I'd like to iron out when I get the chance. In the mean time, enjoy?