What we haven't had is anywhere to write things down. So here it is.

What goes here#

This site has two halves:

• Posts — longer pieces. Technical write-ups, design decisions, community news, the occasional postmortem when we break something.
• Changelogs — every release, version by version, in a consistent format you can actually skim.

Both have RSS feeds if you'd rather not check manually.

Why a separate site#

The main site is a marketing page. It loads a background video, it has a parallax hero, and every page inlines its own copy of a thousand-line stylesheet. That's fine for five pages that change twice a year. It is not fine for something we want to add to every week.

So blogs.getaurora.moe is its own thing: markdown in, static HTML out, one shared stylesheet, no JavaScript beyond a header that fades in on scroll.

If a page doesn't need JavaScript to show its content, it shouldn't need JavaScript to show its content.

On the tooling#

Posts are markdown files with a small frontmatter block:

---
title: Introducing the Aurora blog
date: 2026-08-05
description: A place for release notes and technical write-ups.
tags: [news]
---

A build script turns those into HTML, regenerates the index pages, rebuilds both RSS feeds, and rewrites the sitemap. There's no database, no admin panel, and no login form — which also means there's nothing to break into.

Full GFM is supported, so tables work:

As do task lists:

• Set up the blog
• Write the first post
• Actually keep posting

What's next#

We're working on a proper write-up of how Everlight handles mod load ordering, which is the single most common thing people ask about in Discord. That should land in the next couple of weeks.

Until then — come say hi.

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