Hello, Thingstead

Why Thingstead?

Every engineer needs a home base — a place where the experiments live, the resume is always fresh, and the occasional technical post can breathe. That’s Thingstead.

The name is a portmanteau of thing (the stuff being built) and homestead (the place it all lives). Simple enough.

What’s Here

thingstead.io — The homepage. An overview of active projects, quick links to everything else.

blog.thingstead.io — You’re here. Engineering notes, project retrospectives, and the occasional deep dive.

resume.thingstead.io — A live resume that’s always up to date. No PDF hunting required (though a PDF download is there too).

The Stack

This site is built with:

• Astro — static site generator with zero JS by default
• Tailwind CSS — utility-first styling
• pnpm workspaces — monorepo managing three sites with a shared design system
• Cloudflare Pages — edge-deployed static hosting

No CMS. No database. All content lives as Markdown files in a git repo — the way it should be.

What’s Next

The projects page will grow as new side projects spin up. The blog will accumulate posts as engineering work produces things worth writing about. The resume stays current.

This is version one. Onward.