Welcome to my new new blog

I’ve been thinking about starting a simple blog to share my thoughts on whatever topics come to mind, and replacing my old website from the '90s. For web apps, I’m a big fan of Vue, but for this static blog it makes more sense to use the very lightweight Astro, so I switched over to it recently.

I started with the excellent astro-erudite template which supports Tailwind CSS classes, icons:rocket:, math rendering like $y=x^3$, excellent syntax highlighting for code, and dark mode support (see the header). Then I modified that to get a theme I like.

Some of the images here I made with Midjourney, and some with DALL·E. AI is a fascinating creative tool, but I’m struggling with the serious ethical issues around using people’s content without consent to train the AI. I do check that my images don’t show up in Have I Been Trained.