Hello there! Welcome to the PirateGameThing blog! I've decided to set this up as a sort of replacement for my old cohost profile, as I had planned on starting to use it for blogging purposes soon before it was announced that the platform would be shutting down. I'm probably going to use this place to infodump in a more organized fashion than I do on Bluesky or Discord.

I've built this blog (as well as the entire website surrounding it, fancy!) myself, so I'm definitely going to need to keep updating it as I write new posts and find new things that I've forgotten to implement. For those wondering, this was made using Astro with Strapi as a headless CMS and Tailwind for CSS. I used this specific stack so I could do funky markdown ^stuff without much hassle, but Tailwind doesn't provide default styling for markdown elements, so I might have to go back under the hood every once in a while to add something that I missed. What I'm aiming for here easily could've been achieved by some premade solution, but I built it this way as I thought it would be a good compromise between ease of use and total control. I'm actually writing this before I've decided on how the site is going to look. Even though I'm using modern frameworks, I could make this site as ugly as possible if I really wanted.

I'm mostly writing this so that I can have a blog post to test the site with while I'm designing it, so I'm not sure if this post will actually be seen by the public. If you're seeing this, that means that it did!

Bye!