Rebuilding mayfield.io with less ceremony
I let my personal site go stale for a while. That is fine until you want to point someone at your work and the page still says “coming soon.”
This version is intentionally small: a home page, resume, about page, and room for occasional notes like this one. I rebuilt it with Astro and deploy it toward Cloudflare Workers. No framework gymnastics, mostly static pages, and only the home page opts out of prerendering so it can pull NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as a background.
The resume is HTML first, with a print-to-PDF option at the top. The blog is not a content machine; it is a place to leave a thought when it is worth writing down.
If you are doing the same kind of refresh, my advice is boring: pick a stack you will actually update, ship one real page at a time, and delete the placeholder posts. The site does not need to impress anyone. It needs to be true and easy to maintain.
Hero photo: Cat Sleeping on Keyboard by Panini! (CC0).
