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La Frontera

A fully static, editorially designed online magazine for U.S.–Mexico relations — built as a publication, not an app.

LiveTypeScriptAstro · MDX · Tailwind · nginx · Cloudflare

Editorial + build lead — U.S.–Mexico Relations final project, GWU. Launched May 2026.

The problem

Turn a semester of raw team submissions — documents, audio, images — into a coherent, permanent, publicly hosted publication with a consistent design language.

Technical approach

Astro with typed content collections for articles and podcasts, MDX for prose, Tailwind for the editorial system. Fully static output deployed by rsync to nginx, fronted by Cloudflare with apex canonicalization.

Technical highlights

  • The range entry on the roster: editorial design and information architecture, shipped with the same deployment discipline as the systems work.

Why it matters here

For design-minded audiences: proof the systems engineer can also ship a publication.

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Daniel Ju

I build and operate ML research pipelines, agent infrastructure, and the self-hosted platform behind this site.

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