Welcome to dirthaven.net.

This site serves as a quiet digital outpost—a place for long-form thoughts, software experiments, project writeups, and whatever else comes to mind.

The Aesthetic

The visual language here inherits directly from my previous project, oneclickkill.net—an old-school Quake III Arena Instagib rail server site.

Rather than letting that styling fade away, it has been carried over into this new blog:

• Deep black base with subtle atmospheric textures
• High-contrast typography with crisp 1px drop shadows
• Translucent frosted glass card containers
• Signature bracketed purple hyperlinking

Under the Hood

The previous site ran on client-side React and Vite. For a dedicated blog, Astro is a much better fit:

• Zero JavaScript by default: The pages are rendered to pure static HTML and CSS.
• Markdown-first: Writing new articles is as straightforward as creating a .md file in src/content/blog/.
• Built-in RSS: Fully syndication-ready for feed readers.

Stay tuned for more updates.