Topic

Building Eldritch IT

14 published articles

Oct 9, 2026

The Build Passed. Production Did Not Move.

What a green GitHub build and a failed Cloudflare deployment taught me about separating source validation, deployment credentials, and the live site.

Sep 21, 2026

What Walking Into Local Businesses Taught Me About Selling IT

I stopped treating outreach like a marketing exercise and started learning what a small business actually gives you time to prove.

Sep 7, 2026

Building One Technical Identity Across Two Sites

How I separated a business website from a technical journal without making them look or sound like unrelated projects.

Sep 2, 2026

Order from Complexity as an Operating Standard

How the Eldritch IT tagline became a practical test for ownership, documentation, recovery, deployment, and support work.

Aug 19, 2026

What Astro Build Failures Taught Me as a Beginner

How real build failures taught me about content schemas, layouts, static routes, deployment logs, and the limits of generated code.

Aug 18, 2026

Why I Write Engineering Notes in Public

Publishing completed technical work forces me to separate evidence from memory, useful architecture from private identifiers, and lessons from the exact environment that produced them.

Jul 30, 2026

How I Kept Drafts Out of Astro Production Builds

The layered controls I use so unfinished Markdown can stay in the repository without reaching pages, feeds, search, or build output.

Jul 16, 2026

Why I Chose Cloudflare

Why Cloudflare fit my requirements for DNS, edge TLS, Git-connected deployment, and public delivery without making the Eldritch IT websites depend on my homelab.

Jul 15, 2026

Cleaning Up an AI-Generated Site

What it took to turn an AI-assisted Astro starter into a site I understood, trusted, and could maintain.

Jul 15, 2026

Building the First Version of EldritchIT.com

Why I stopped chasing a perfect business website and launched a focused version I could improve with real feedback.

Jul 14, 2026

Why I Chose Astro and Cloudflare for eldritchit.me

How I split writing, version control, deployment, and public delivery across Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare.

Jul 14, 2026

Building eldritchit.me with Astro

What I learned by turning Astro's blog starter into a publication I could understand, maintain, and keep improving.

Jul 13, 2026

Registering My Texas LLC

My experience forming Eldritch IT in Texas—and why submitting the paperwork felt more difficult than completing it.

Jul 13, 2026

Why I Started Eldritch IT

Why I am building a deliberately small IT company around trust, documentation, and stable systems instead of growth for its own sake.