I don't have much to share today. I've been busy (playing Warframe), but I do have some content planned. However, one of the best features of my site is now ready; the Payload CMS backend can build the frontend whenever the content changes!
Well, it's moreso that it kicks off a CloudFlare Pages build pipeline, but that's a technicality.
Feel free to checkout the updated backend code on GitHub. This also helps me remove some weird proprietary stuff I can't share in the frontend (which is why that repo is not public yet), so I'm satisfied with a few steps in the right direction. Good and deployed is better than perfect and not, after all.
Payload CMS has been a pleasure to work with, I would definitely recommend it to any developer types who are looking for control over their CMS, especially if you're weird like me and prefer CMSes over raw Markdown (which would have been even easier in Astro, but where's the fun in easy!?)
Hope someone finds it useful. Additionally, the site is now completely data driven; you can see what the backend API looks like for site metadata. Pretty neat!