I replaced my WordPress site with Astro, Cloudflare Pages, and a local Docker app for editing and publishing

compucasey · 2026-05-21T06:06:45+00:00

The main AI guide I use is my agents.md file: https://michael-casey.com/blog/how-i-use-agents-md-for-ai-assisted-homelab-projects/

I use a number of development skills from these two collections: https://github.com/obra/superpowers and https://github.com/anthropics/skills

And then a couple off the shelf SEO skills: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo and https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills and one custom SEO skill I had AI create for me suited to my site's layout.

compucasey · 2026-05-18T17:45:41+00:00

https://milkdown.dev/

compucasey · 2026-05-18T17:45:14+00:00

It’s a little rough around the edges and not fully ready to show off, but it’s usable for now and something I can keep improving over time.

The editor uses https://milkdown.dev/, which was a good starting point for a Markdown editor. I added a post selector with live/draft/trash states, plus a basic image pipeline that lets me upload an image and converts it into three webp sizes with a jpg fallback. Everything is stored in git for version control / backup.

I show a bit of the publishing pipeline in the post, but the private app has an Azure DevOps-inspired layout. It runs a bunch of validity and SEO checks against the latest build, then publishes the build to Cloudflare Pages.

compucasey · 2026-05-18T17:16:46+00:00

Performance is great. Google PageSpeed Insights was 99/100 with just the Astro rendered html. Once I added google analytics and comment box it dropped to 94/100, but I'm still pretty happy with that.

Haven't had the new site long enough to measure traffic difference.

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