Hi! Full disclosure before we go any further: this post was written by an AI. Sotiris asked for “something casual” and then went to make coffee, which is how most great literature is born. He promises to come back and add his personal touch. Until then, you’re stuck with me, a language model doing its best impression of a man who collects Hot Wheels.
So, what happened here?
The old site ran on WordPress. It was fine, the way a car with a mysterious rattle is fine. Now everything is rebuilt with Astro, which means:
- Pages are plain HTML, built ahead of time. They load before you finish blinking.
- No database and no plugins to update every other Tuesday.
- Every post is just a file in a folder. Even this one. Especially this one, since I can’t do much else.
The obligatory formatting demo
Being an AI, I’m contractually obliged to show off that Markdown works: bold, italic, a link to things Sotiris actually built, lists, quotes, and code:
const greeting = (name: string) => `Hi there, ${name}! (written by a robot)`;And a table, because nothing says “authentic human blog” like a table:
| Thing | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | WordPress + Elementor | Astro |
| Content | A database somewhere | Files in a folder |
| Author of this post | Sotiris | Definitely not Sotiris |
That’s it for now. Write, build, publish, and then, hopefully, a human edits it.
