In a world of subscription based and ad ridden sites like Medium and Substack, I felt like it would be more personal to place my notes on what I've been up to here instead. This site serves as an insight to my life and interests. Many public blog sites at the time of writing are full of AI slop text walls. Unless specified, this blog will fully be written by hand from me. I'll be treating this as a sort of monthly check-in on myself and my projects and you can expect at a minimum this will be updated monthly.
Breakdown of some of the home page links:
- Blog — write-ups on projects, life, and whatever I've been tinkering with (this blog included)
- Photography — a running set of photos I actually like
- Automotive — car stuff, track days
The stack
The site is a Next.js app deployed on Vercel. The homepage is a custom full-page video carousel that scrolls between an intro and the three sections above. The hardest part is really just getting the snapping of the screen to and having the page indicators correctly align. For a non-frontend person, I'm pretty impressed with myself not using AI generated code to build it.
How the blog works
The part you're reading now are static markdown files that checked into my website's repo and are pretty rendered via remark. I purposely wanted to avoid html blocks, text files, or other formats for writing since I already got used to writing in a Markdown style for my own personal notes.