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The Cozy Nook
This very website — a 2000s-nostalgia personal site built with Astro 6.
About
The Cozy Nook is my personal website — a homebase for adventures, making things, and keeping notes.
Tech stack
- Astro 6 — static site generator with hybrid SSR
- Pure CSS — no frameworks, custom properties design system
- better-sqlite3 — self-hosted guestbook backend
- Google Fonts — Lora, DM Serif Display, Inter, JetBrains Mono (all open source)
Features
- Blog with tag filtering and RSS feed
- Projects index with CSS-only category tabs
- Knowledge base (notes, guides, bookmarks)
- Guestbook with no login, no cookies, no third-party services
- 88x31 badge shelf
- Web ring / links page
- Responsive sidebar layout
- Terminal-style accent boxes
Design
Warm cream palette with burnt orange accents and terminal amber details. Semi-modern nostalgia aesthetic — pixel-art borders, retro decorative elements, but clean and readable.