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Hello, World

February 1, 2026·2 min read
metawriting

Every blog starts with a "hello world" post, and who am I to break tradition?

I've been meaning to have a proper home on the internet for a while. Not a GitHub profile or a LinkedIn page, but a place I actually own and control — somewhere to write about things I'm working on, thinking about, or learning.

The terminal aesthetic felt right. I spend most of my day in a terminal anyway, so it made sense to bring that energy to the design.

  • Next.js 15 (App Router) — static generation for fast pages with no server required
  • Tailwind CSS v4 — CSS-first config, @theme tokens for the colour palette
  • MDX via next-mdx-remote — write posts in Markdown, render as React components
  • rehype-pretty-code + Shiki — syntax highlighting with the One Dark Pro theme

Here's a quick code snippet to prove the highlighting works:

// Fibonacci with memoization
function fib(n: number, memo: Map<number, number> = new Map()): number {
  if (n <= 1) return n;
  if (memo.has(n)) return memo.get(n)!;
  const result = fib(n - 1, memo) + fib(n - 2, memo);
  memo.set(n, result);
  return result;
}
 
console.log(fib(40)); // 102334155

I'll be writing about:

  • Systems programming (Go, Rust)
  • Developer tooling and CLI design
  • Lessons from building things in public
  • Occasional takes on engineering culture

Thanks for stopping by.