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Herwig Teufer

Data Engineer · Bouldering Enthusiast · Hobby Blogger

Wednesday, 11 November 2026 Personal edition teufer.dev

Learning Astro and Tailwind by Building My Own Website

A personal account of how I built my portfolio/blog site using Astro, Tailwind CSS, and GitHub Pages - and what I learned along the way.

After spending some time contemplating what I want to learn next, I finally decided to build my own portfolio/blog site using Astro and Tailwind CSS.

In this post, I'll walk through my motivation, the tools I used, and what I learned along the way.

Recently, I have been exploring a lot of new topics in various domains like AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing. This blog should help document this journey while potentially including one or the other educational post to help others.

Initially I thought about posting on one of the popular blogging sites, but then I came across Astro. Going through their documentation I discovered a tutorial allowing me to learn Astro's key features while setting the foundation for…

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