The private repo started with fonts and ended up with Lambda code and CDK stacks. "Private" is not a concern — it's an access control label. The fork isn't a fix — it's an upgrade, and upgrades are cheap.

A short URL in a post's frontmatter, a CloudFront function generated at build time. No third-party service, no database, no link rot.

How I built this blog — static site, real auth, role-based content, no server.

Updated VSCode the other day and noticed Copilot will now create git commit messages. Since most of mine are "did some stuff" I figured, what's the worst that could happen.