Astro blog deployed on Github Pages. VS Code for editing. Points to Ponder -> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hoste

Astro blog deployed on Github Pages. VS Code for editing. Points to Ponder -> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hosted blog needs. Using any of the third party themes/templates with a list of features has a bunch of disadvantages. It takes more effort to customize and upgrading to newer versions totally breaks the setup, sucking in hours of your time. -> VS Code has plenty of Markdown Extensions. Markdown Preview and Frontend Masters come to mind.