Notes from the build.

The real lessons and tooling from building snow.deal — practical, in-the-weeds engineering, one problem at a time. Several pieces pair with a runnable, MIT-licensed repo you can drop into your own stack.

• Hello, world: how this blog is built

  A first article that proves the whole chain end-to-end — MDX authoring, Shiki-highlighted code, reading-time, tags, and the paired worked-example repo callout.

  17 June 2026·2 min read·#meta #astro