Mar 9, 2026
Designing a fast personal site
Notes on building a personal site that behaves like a document, not an app.
performance / astro
Bojin Li / Brian
This is where I keep essays, experiments, operating notes, and the ideas that are still uneven but not ready to be thrown away.
I prefer pages that open fast, interfaces that stay calm, and systems that still make sense after the shiny part wears off.
I am currently in Melbourne, finishing a master's at the University of Melbourne, and slowly turning this into a bilingual home on the web.
Some of the more network-shaped experiments live under AS198734AS198734 on bgp.tools.
Mar 9, 2026
Notes on building a personal site that behaves like a document, not an app.
performance / astro
Mar 8, 2026
What can be improved with CDN, and what still depends on the main HTML delivery path.
infrastructure / china
Mar 7, 2026
A placeholder article for the new blog collection and route structure.
design / systems
Feb 18, 2026
On choosing plain notes and durable pages over complex personal dashboards.
notes / ui / systems
Nov 2, 2025
Why small tools, released early and often, still matter more than polished internal concepts.
tools / shipping / products