Rebuilding smartsideoftheforce.com as a static site

For years this blog lived on WordPress.com. It worked, but I wanted two things WordPress made awkward: a properly structured watch catalog (not just tagged posts), and an editing workflow I actually own — Markdown files in git instead of a database behind someone else’s login wall.

This site is now built with Astro, content lives as Markdown in a git repo, and it deploys to Cloudflare Pages on every push. No server to patch, no database to back up, and the watch collection is a first-class content type with real fields — movement, case dimensions, acquisition story — instead of stuffed into post tags.

More on the actual homelab and watch content soon.