Welcome to the blog!

After way too much time I finally decided to upgrade this website (with a blog, out of all possible things). Now, the reason as to why a blog, mostly because then I can share and archive my more interesting work. It might also motivate me to get actually publishable results. Of course there isn't much to write in a "first blog post" post, well, other than the tech stack, and a general demo I guess.

The tech stack

For the tech stack I used MDX, mostly because it is absurdly customizable, and allows for inline React components (which I totally wont spam smirk).
For instance, if I wish to do so I can just plop down a chart like so:

I actually plan to use a more.. interesting graph library than the one provided by shadcn/ui eventually, like Plotly (which is closer to matplotlib it seems) but for right now it would end up being way overkill. It is also totally doable to use something like ThreeJS, for example this ThreeJS example, which was what actually inspired me to use MDX.
Needless to say, this opens up a lot of possibilities especially for things like interactive demos. I might also setup something like Shiki for code blocks eventually but as of writing this, codeblocks are not supported.

Integration issues

Honestly, I would like to say it worked first try and setup was a breeze, but unfortunately I can't lol. I actually needed to change from Webpack to Next.js just to get this working. Manually setting up the mdx-components.tsx is also quite something, although there are themes for it (nextra for example). But of course after you get past that initial setup everything else becomes very easy.
Having more things to customize (and thus setup) also inherently means you do end up having more control over what you want, which is always nice.

Conclusion

To conclude this.. well, there isn't much to conclude this. Other than the fact that now I have a blog. Which hopefully means more cool things to come in the not so far future.