01 / Overview
The site is both a public notebook and a continuously maintained software product. It combines a large article archive with automated technical digests, full-text search, audio experiments and reader annotations.
Rowan's Blog
A long-running personal publishing system with technical writing, daily research digests, annotations and an evolving Cloudflare delivery stack.
- Astro
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare
- D1
- GitHub Actions
02 / The question
What needed to be understood?
A personal site accumulates content and infrastructure over years. The work is less about a one-time redesign and more about preserving URLs, publishing reliability and readability while the system changes underneath.
03 / The build
How the project approached it
- Migrated the presentation layer to Astro while preserving the existing content archive.
- Built a scheduled digest pipeline that turns selected sources into publishable Markdown.
- Added same-origin annotation APIs backed by Cloudflare Workers, D1 and Durable Objects.
- Kept build checks and deployment verification part of the publishing workflow.
04 / Current state
What remains
The site remains the primary public entry point for writing and shipped work. This projects section is the next step in consolidating that identity under rowanliu.com.
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