gblog is an open-source personal blog template and live website built on Astro. It statically generates pages from Markdown/MDX content collections, providing a typical blog surface: post listing, categories, timeline, friends page, full-text RSS, sitemap, 404 page, and SEO/OpenGraph metadata. The site integrates Algolia DocSearch, Giscus-based comments, Umami/Google Analytics, and an image optimization pipeline with blur-up placeholders. It also includes a small Cloudflare Pages Functions API backing a "life snapshots" gallery, with uploads stored in R2 and metadata in KV, plus a client-side React timeline component that progressively loads gallery entries from that API with a local fallback. The codebase is a hybrid of polished infrastructure and personal content. The Astro config uses modern integrations (MDX, Tailwind, React, Partytown, compress, sitemap), and several support modules are cleanly isolated — e.g., a Sharp-based blur placeholder generator, a full-content MDX RSS endpoint built on Astro's experimental container, and an idempotent batch image conversion/upload script using OpenDAL. The project is actively maintained by a single author and reflects real production use, but it has no automated test suite, contains a couple of small leftover TODOs (e.g., BackTop button), and couples some configuration values (Algolia API key, analytics IDs) directly into source. Overall, this is a well-structured application template for someone wanting a fully-featured, visually polished Astro blog. It demonstrates solid architecture for a personal project: clear separation of content, components, support utilities, and deployment functions. While it is not a library, several of its support modules and edge-function patterns can be lifted into other Astro or Cloudflare projects with minimal adaptation. The primary value is as a production-grade reference implementation of a static blog with serverless image/gallery extensions.