Everyone needs their own little cozy corner on the interwebs, and this is mine.https://amruthpillai.com/https://amruthpillai.com/blog/my-first-post/https://amruthpillai.com/blog/my-first-post/The first post of many to come. A quick intro to the new website, and why I rebuilt it from scratch.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTimport { Image } from "astro:assets" import lighthouseScore from "./lighthouse-score.png" It's spring, and that means, it's time for a website refresh. This has been a long time coming, but I never made the time to sit down and do the work to redesign and simplify my personal website. Well, it's here now. Powered by Astro, this website goes back to a simpler time, when all that was shipped to the reader was a bunch of HTML and CSS, and maybe a tiny bit of Javascript. The whole point was to wind-down and simplify, and Astro let me do just that, so I can focus on content rather than performance-maxing. This website also receives a Lighthouse score that's not too shabby, but of course, that's not a metric that should be taken too seriously. It's fast, that's all that matters. <Image src={lighthouseScore} alt="lighthouse score for amruthpillai.com" widths={[576]} class="max-w-xl rounded-md object-cover" /> Astro even lets me write stylized code blocks and snippets, which is what I want to write about most of the time anyway. ```tsx line-numbers const [count, setCount] = useState(0) return ( <div> <p>Count: {count}</p> <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>Increment</button> </div> ) ``` As usual, the code for this website, like all my other projects, is open source and available on [GitHub](https://github.com/amruthpillai/amruthpillai). Licensed under [MIT](https://github.com/amruthpillai/amruthpillai/blob/main/LICENSE), so feel free to use it as a template for your own website. I'll keep this post short, and end it here by thanking you for reading. If you have any feedback, please feel free to reach out to me on the [contact form](/#contact).