Building this portfolio

This is the first post on my new dev blog. I'm writing it to test the pipeline, so it's deliberately plain.

The stack

The site runs on Next.js with the App Router, Tailwind for styling, and a small set of design tokens adapted to a dark, coral-accented theme. Posts like this one live as MDX files committed alongside the code.

Why MDX in the repo

There's no database and no CMS. A post is just a file with some frontmatter at the top and Markdown below it. To publish, I write a file and push. Everything stays version-controlled with the rest of the site.

Here's the shape of the helper that reads these posts:

export function getAllPosts(): PostMeta[] {
  return getPostSlugs()
    .map((slug) => getPostBySlug(slug)?.meta)
    .filter(Boolean)
    .sort((a, b) => (a.date < b.date ? 1 : -1))
}

That's the whole idea. More posts to come.