2026-09-06 · 1 min read

Starting this blog

Why the notes section became a blog, and how this one is put together.

This replaces the password-gated notes section. Same idea — writing that isn’t a case study — but public, and built to hold more than prose.

What it can do

Posts are MDX, so a post is a document and a component. Alongside the usual formatting there is room for anything that needs to be interactive to make its point.

  • Rich text — headings, lists, quotes, footnotes
  • Code with syntax highlighting
  • Media — images and video
  • Live components, which is the interesting one

Anything that can be explained faster by letting you touch it should be something you can touch.

The file tree

The sidebar mirrors the content directory. A post at src/content/blog/engineering/state.mdx shows up under an engineering folder; one at the root sits on its own. Adding a folder is making a folder.