Zilong's Tech Notes Notes on "Astro"
Astro is joining Cloudflare. I always had a feeling Astro would be acquired — and now it’s happening. Astro has been my favorite framework for building static websites, and it’s my choice for my personal websites now. It reminds me of when I first discovered static site generators like Jekyll — just basic build-time templating and composition, making creating a blog very easy. Features like content collections and islands are genuinely innovative. I hope it stays productive and keeps its simplicity.
Splitting My Websites and Finalizing My Writing Framework
Last weekend, I reorganized my personal websites. Here’s the new structure:
| Website | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Personal landing page | https://zlliang.me | Brief introduction and navigation |
| Zilong’s Tech Notes | https://tech.zlliang.me | Tech learning and research (English) |
| Zilong’s Days | https://days.zlliang.me | Daily life and reflections (Chinese) |
In this post, I explain my motivation for splitting the sites. After this change, I’m ready to mark version 1.0 of my writing framework. The permalinks will be stable, and I’m excited to share more technical and personal topics in these spaces.
I just added pagination to note pages like /notes and /notes/categories/link, as the number of notes grows. Each page now shows up to 20 notes, and a tiny pagination indicator lets you navigate between pages without scrolling endlessly. I used Astro’s built-in pagination feature. Here’s the commit: zlliang/zlliang@0b22dda.
Pagination indicator on the notes page
Pagination indicator on the index page, guiding you to the second page of notes
Starting a Blog at the End of 2025
Happy holidays! At the end of 2025, I’m starting a blog. I’ve already written several entries and feel confident I can keep it going.
Here I talk about my past attempts, the writers who inspired me, the motivation, the topics to cover, and the approach I’m taking. It’s my version of a blogging manifesto.