Project Insomnia

Personal site for Andrew Rich — writing, projects, and a live /now page.

Built with Astro 5, hosted on Netlify.

Stack

• Astro 5 — static output with selective SSR for the /now page
• @astrojs/netlify — adapter for Netlify on-demand functions
• @netlify/blobs — blob store for /now page feed data
• MDX — blog posts
• astro-expressive-code — syntax highlighting (Dracula theme)

Pages

Route	Description
/	Homepage with recent posts
/blog/	Full post archive
/now/	Live feed: GitHub activity, Strava, Instagram
/projects/	Apps, client work, and open source repos
/about/	About page

/now page feeds

The /now page lazy-loads three live feeds via Netlify on-demand functions:

Feed	Function	Source
GitHub	/api/github-feed	Public Atom feed
Strava	/api/strava-feed	Strava API v3 (OAuth 2.0)
Instagram	/api/instagram-feed	IFTTT webhook → Netlify Blobs

Instagram posts are pushed via IFTTT Maker Webhooks to /api/instagram-webhook and stored in Netlify Blobs.

Environment variables

Set in Netlify dashboard (not committed):

Variable	Used by
STRAVA_CLIENT_ID	strava-feed function
STRAVA_CLIENT_SECRET	strava-feed function
STRAVA_REFRESH_TOKEN	strava-feed function
INSTAGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET	instagram-webhook function
BUILD_HOOK_URL	scheduled-rebuild function

Blog Publishing

Posts use two frontmatter fields to control visibility:

• draft: true — never published, regardless of date
• date — the publish date; future-dated posts are hidden until that date arrives

Publish modes

Mode	How	When it goes live
Scheduled	Set date to a future date, draft: false, merge to main	Automatically at ~6am PT on/after that date
Immediate	Set date to today, merge, then trigger the build hook	Minutes after triggering
Draft	Set draft: true	Never (until you remove the flag)

Manual publish trigger

curl -sX POST "$BUILD_HOOK_URL"

The build hook URL is stored as BUILD_HOOK_URL in Netlify environment variables. A Netlify Scheduled Function triggers a rebuild daily at ~6am PT (1pm UTC) to sweep up any posts whose date has arrived.

Development

npm install
npm run dev       # localhost:4321
npm run build     # production build to ./dist/
npm run preview   # preview production build locally

Deploys automatically from main via Netlify.