Welcome to my blog

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Hi, I’m Justin, a software engineer in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This blog used to be a separate Ghost site at blog.justinmonteza.com. Keeping two sites running was more work than it was worth, so the blog now lives here, next to my projects and experience. Links to the old blog will redirect here.

What I’ll write about

Mostly the things I work on day to day:

  • Payments with Stripe: webhooks, retries, refunds, and reconciliation
  • Integrations between systems that weren’t designed to talk to each other
  • ASP.NET Core, C#, and running multi-tenant SaaS on Azure
  • Side projects, and what I learn building them

How it’s built

Every post is a Markdown file in the same repository as the rest of the site. Astro turns it into a static page at build time, so there’s no CMS or database to keep running. A post starts with a few lines of frontmatter:

---
title: Welcome to my blog
description: Why my blog moved from Ghost to this site, how it's built, and what I plan to write about.
date: 2026-09-25
tags: [Meta, Astro]
---

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Thanks for reading.