---
title: Hello, snowboardcto
date: 2026-05-22
excerpt: First post — how does this site work?
tags: [meta, shipping]
---

This site is built on Astro, but the part that matters day-to-day is small: everything you read here lives in a markdown file.

```mermaid
%%{init: {'theme':'base', 'themeVariables': {'primaryColor':'#ecedda','primaryTextColor':'#1a1f1c','primaryBorderColor':'#2f6b3e','lineColor':'#2f6b3e','fontFamily':'Roboto Mono, monospace'}}}%%
flowchart LR
  md[".md file"] --> push["git push"]
  push --> build["Astro build"]
  build --> page["post page"]
  build --> rss["RSS"]
  build --> og["OG image"]
  build --> sitemap["sitemap"]
```

So writing here is just: edit a markdown file, push to `main`, GitHub Actions builds and deploys to Azure Static Web Apps. No CMS, no database, no draft queue I have to remember to flush. The post you're reading right now is the simplest possible test of that pipeline.

![Snow plant](../../assets/posts/hello-snowboardcto/snowplant.jpg)