Site Update (April 2025)

I’ve done a complete rewrite of this site. My old version was made with Gatsby.js. While I liked the overall style, it had reached a point where I couldn’t even build it locally with a recent version of Node.js.

Since Gatsby is pretty much abandoned, I choosed a new static-site generator Astro.

Rebuilding this site was definitely a lot of work. The previous version had accumulated many small features over time, and reimplementing all those little details took quite a bit of effort. And while the design of this site is similar to the previous one, I still made extensive change to its layout and style. I also added some new things, such as the grid layout of the project page and a theme toggle.

There are still two major things I need to take care of. First, I don’t have comments set up yet. I previously used the cloud-hosted version of Commento, but I plan to migrate to self-hosting using Comentario. Second, my notes are still a seperate website under the subdomain notes.lesleylai.info. Migrating them over to this site will be a significant task, but I plan to do it in the future.

Update 2025-04-25: The comment system is alive again! I write about my setup in the following post.