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Rebuilding This Website

A short note on turning the starter site into a personal terminal scrapbook.

[ corbinriches.com // rebuild log ]

This site started as a plain Astro starter and is slowly becoming a small personal homepage: part portfolio, part notebook, part old-web dashboard.

The current direction is intentionally simple. Static pages, Markdown posts, editable data files, and small client-side widgets where they make sense. No CMS yet. No database. No heroic build system.

The main design rule is restraint: tan and charcoal, terminal-like labels, boxed panels, and enough ASCII texture to make the site feel handmade without making it hard to read.

Things I want this site to hold:

  • project writeups
  • technical notes
  • bookshelf entries
  • lab-adjacent thoughts
  • small interactive toys
  • contact information that is easy to find

This post is mostly a marker in the sand: the blog exists now, and adding another note should be as simple as dropping a Markdown file into src/content/blog/.

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