Hello, world

Welcome to the first post on my rebuilt personal site. I moved from a single static HTML page to a proper Next.js app so I have a real place to write — and a real playground to learn frontend along the way.

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Why rebuild?

The old site did one job: show my name and an email link. That's fine, but I wanted three things it couldn't give me:

A blog where I can publish articles, with proper support for images.
A setup that is AI-friendly — readable by search engines and AI agents out of the box (structured data, a sitemap, an RSS feed, and an llms.txt).
A codebase I can grow into, so improving the site doubles as learning.

What's under the hood

The stack is intentionally simple to start:

Next.js (App Router) with TypeScript
Tailwind CSS for styling
MDX for writing posts — Markdown with the option to drop in React components when a plain paragraph isn't enough

Here's what adding a post looks like — just a Markdown file with some front matter:

---
title: "My next post"
date: "2026-08-01"
summary: "A one-line teaser."
---
 
Write your content here.

What's next

This is a foundation, not a finish line. Future experiments might include dynamic social images, tags and search, and small UI animations. If you want to follow along, the RSS feed has you covered.