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I should still flesh this out

Site itself is built in Astro (opens in new tab), mostly relying on static astro components with some splashes of Javascript for interactivity.
For more complex interactivity I'm using Solid (opens in new tab), which I'm new to, but really enjoying so far. Astro handles SSR and hydration.
I'm a big Typescript (opens in new tab) fan, so that's used just about everywhere I can get away with it, and I try to make sure everything is typed to actually benefit from it.
The site is hosted on a Hetzner (opens in new tab) VPS, which is running Coolify (opens in new tab), a self-hosted Heroku alternative. It's a bit of a cliché, but it's ridiculous how much more I get from this little ARM VPS vs the PaaS offerings.
Long form content is written in MDX (opens in new tab), which is a mix of Markdown and JSX. I'm a big fan of trying out new things in individual posts, which it is perfect for.
Structured data like my games collection is stored in Pocketbase (opens in new tab), which I'm absolutely loving. I started just using the provided admin interface, but I've ended up building a custom admin interface for it using SolidJS, which is a lot of fun. I might write about that at some point.