Why I Built My Own Site with Astro, Not WordPress when I use WordPress for a Living (opens in new tab)

The short version — WordPress is a brilliant tool — it's also the wrong tool for a site that's nothing but articles, calculators, and a sitemap. Tinkernotes has no logins, no comments, no checkout, and no database it can't live without. So it's an Astro site built as static HTML and served from Cloudflare Pages. The result is a site that costs £0/month to host, ships almost no JavaScript, and can't be hacked the ways WordPress sites get hacked. If you're a WP dev sitting on a content project,...