Hello World: Launching My Tech Notebook

Welcome to my new digital notebook! I decided to build a custom Markdown-based blogging system so that I can directly share my engineering notes and system architectures right from my repository.

Here is a quick overview of how this blog system is architected:

Why a custom solution?

Building it directly into Next.js provides several advantages:

1. No CMS overhead: I just commit markdown files.
2. Version control: Revisions are tracked alongside code.
3. Mermaid support: As you can see above, I can natively draw diagrams.

Code Snippet Example

export function getWordFrequency(blogs: BlogPost[]) {
  // calculates how often technical terms appear across all my text!
  return Object.entries(wordCount)
    .sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1])
    .slice(0, 50);
}

Looking forward to writing more!