raising this tower
2026-06-09
https://tinksoft.com/log/building-this-site/
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Second entry, and it's about the tower itself.

## the materials

Entries are markdown scrolls. Astro turns them into plain HTML at build time
and stays out of the delivery entirely. Nothing scripted reaches your scrying
glass: zero JavaScript, one hand-inscribed CSS file, hosting on plain shared
stone.

## why so austere

Every build-in-public chronicle I admired kept the ritual cost of posting
near zero. Make publishing require a CMS, a cover image, and a fight with a
rich text editor, and the entries stop coming. I've watched it happen to
better wizards than me.

Here a new entry is one `.md` scroll dropped in a folder.

```bash
# the entire publishing ritual
git add src/content/blog/my-update.md
git commit -m "log: my update"
git push
```

## what miscast already

The ASCII banner looked grand on a desktop mirror and turned to alphabet
soup on small ones. `font-size: clamp()` shrinks it now instead of letting
it wrap. First miscast in the book. Recorded, as sworn.