What changed on this portfolio recently?

This post is a quick note about the latest site updates you can now see on this portfolio. I’d been avoiding this migration because I had tried it once before and the whole site just ended up crashing. That made me a bit skeptical about doing it again, but this time it actually landed cleanly and I wanted to explain what changed.

Tailwind and Astro now match

The portfolio moved off the old @astrojs/tailwind integration and now uses @tailwindcss/vite in astro.config.mjs. That means the site is built with Tailwind v4 configuration and the plugins are imported directly through ESM:

tailwindcss();

The configuration still includes the same helpers for typography, forms, aspect ratio, and container queries, but now they’re wired into Vite explicitly.

Blog content rendering was improved

I added scoped markdown styles for blog posts so lists, code, blockquotes, and tables render as expected. That includes:

• readable paragraph spacing
• bullets and nested list support
• a fixed inline code size inside headings
• dark mode-friendly blog text and links

The goal was to keep the blog readable without shrinking every single inline code snippet site-wide.

Case cards and homepage selection

The case overlay now uses a Vite-compatible RGBA background class:

bg-[rgba(15,23,42,0.75)]

And the homepage selected cases list is intentionally limited to 6 cards so the front page feels complete without overwhelming the visitor.

Content cleanup

I also removed a stray empty file from src/content/blog that was breaking the build. That file had no frontmatter, so Astro reported a schema validation failure before this cleanup.

Why this matters

This was one of those updates I kept putting off because I knew the migration would be messy, and it would a be a long process. Now that it’s done, the site feels much more stable, the blog is easier to update, and the frontpage behaves exactly the way I actually want it to. If you’re reading this while the site is still a work in progress, consider this the note that explains what I fixed most recently.