seanrleach.co.uk

Personal site and technical blog. Built with Astro and the AstroPaper theme (v7.1.0, MIT, see LICENSE-astro-paper), and deployed to GitHub Pages by .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

Run locally

Needs Node 22.23 or newer and pnpm.

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # http://localhost:4321
pnpm build      # type-check, build to dist/ and index for search

Search only works after a pnpm build, which generates the index.

Where things are

What	Where
Site title, description, socials, feature flags	astro-paper.config.ts
Home page intro	src/pages/index.astro
About page	src/content/pages/about.md
Posts	src/content/posts/
Static files served as-is (CNAME, the spa decoder, legacy redirects)	public/

Writing a post

Add a Markdown file to src/content/posts/. The file name becomes the URL: my-post.md is served at /posts/my-post/.

---
title: "Post title"
description: "One-line summary shown in post lists and search results."
pubDatetime: 2026-11-09T12:00:00Z
tags:
  - one
  - two
---

Add featured: true to pin a post to the top of the home page, or draft: true to keep it out of the build.