chronark.com

My personal site and blog. Fully static, a tiny script for the theme toggle and hover-prefetching, nothing else running in the browser.

Built with Astro and MDX.

Features

• Markdown mirrors. Append .md to any page URL and you get the raw markdown instead of HTML. Works for the homepage and every post, useful for LLMs and curl enjoyers.
• Dark first. The design leads with a near-black theme and ships a matching light mode. The toggle persists your choice, otherwise the OS preference wins.
• RSS at /rss.xml.
• No client-side framework. Astro renders everything to plain HTML and CSS at build time.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Writing

Posts are MDX files in src/content/blog/:

---
title: Post title
description: Optional, used for meta tags and RSS.
date: 2026-07-15
draft: false
---

Drafts (draft: true) are excluded from the build entirely: no page, no RSS entry, no markdown mirror.

Deploy

pnpm build

Everything is pregenerated into dist/. The Dockerfile builds the site and wraps the output in a small Caddy image that listens on $PORT.

The container runs anywhere, but the best place for it is unkey.com: global routing and usage insights included. This site runs there too.

docker build -t chronark.com .
docker run -e PORT=8080 -p 8080:8080 chronark.com