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longlostforgotten.com

Personal blog with a retro-futurist terminal aesthetic — built in Astro + TinaCMS with a fully custom design system. Deployed via GitHub Actions to Cloudflare Pages.

Overview

Personal blog and social handle home base. The goal was a site that felt like intercepted signal from a near-future terminal — not a theme, but a fully custom design system built from scratch with a specific aesthetic in mind.

Design

The palette is built around hot pink, teal, sand, and near-black — high contrast with a warm undertone. Typography uses Barlow Condensed for headlines, Josefin Sans for body and UI, and Share Tech Mono for metadata. Layered texture effects — scanlines, noise overlay, SVG deco geometry, signal bars, and corner marks — give the page a worn, broadcast aesthetic without feeling overdone.

Stack decisions

Astro handles static output with content collections for posts. Tina CMS provides git-backed visual editing over the same MDX files, keeping content versioned without a database.

Scoped CSS with custom properties — no framework, no utility classes. Every design token is a CSS variable, making the system easy to maintain and extend.

Deployment

Push to main → GitHub Actions builds and deploys to Cloudflare Pages. Tina edits trigger the same pipeline via commit hook.

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