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@@ -5,7 +5,29 @@ date: "18/06/2024"
 
 ## Update: Port to Astro (<span class="date">22/05/2025</span>)
 
-hi
+I'm expanding my website to included more detailed algorithms, implementations, write-ups, and low-level optimization case studies.
+
+I thought about writing these posts in the raw HTML as I've been doing and physically cringed.
+
+Then I recalled the below post I made around one year ago and realized the following:
+
+- Sure, you can be efficient with raw HTML/CSS/JS. However, _no matter what you do_ snippets, hotkeys, etc, nothing is fast than writing markdown.
+- Overhead (i.e. the massive overhead of copying over content, writing the html) matters
+- I'll be needing more advanced features that, while possible to do in vanilla web, would just be painful to maintain.
+- Sure, frameworks come with bloat. At this point, I'd added web components and script finagling&mdash;I was on the path to reinventing React myself.
+
+Enter [astro](https://astro.build/).
+
+- Lower overhead
+- Small bundle size
+- SSR opt in/out
+- Minimal boilerplate
+
+Everything is now in MDX. I had to say goodbye to my d3 latex labels (I could only do this with MathJax, which I recently found out was overkill for my needs) and a bit of custom styling.
+
+On the upside, I have around the same LOC, a dead-simple blog post setup ([here](https://github.com/barrett-ruth/barrettruth.com/commit/8666e5a16983b177118f6e8a3246feb0d6907fff) was my biggest commit), and the entire Astro community at my back.
+
+The choice of Astro was of no significance. It did the job and that's all that matters. I'm not quite a fan of the funky `---` syntax to separate HTML and JS, though. I find it counterintuitive to separate the UI and the frontend logic, which ought to be tightly coupled. I don't want to imagine working on larger files in Astro.
 
 ## HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
 
@@ -13,10 +35,10 @@ That's all there is to it.
 
 I thought about using the following frameworks:
 
-1.  [React.js](https://react.dev/)
-2.  [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/)
-3.  [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/)
-4.  [Astro](https://astro.build/)
+1. [React.js](https://react.dev/)
+2. [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/)
+3. [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/)
+4. [Astro](https://astro.build/)
 
 But I did not actually _need_ any of them to make this site look decent.