Behind the Blog

Welcome to my new blog! I wanted to share a bit about the technology that powers this site.

The Tech Stack

This blog is built with Next.js, a powerful React framework that enables features like server-side rendering and static site generation. The content is written in MDX, which lets me seamlessly mix Markdown with React components.

For hosting, I'm using Vercel, which provides a seamless deployment experience specifically optimised for Next.js applications.

Static Site Generation

One of the key benefits of this setup is static site generation (SSG). With Next.js, my pages are generated at build time rather than on each request, resulting in:

• Faster page loads
• Better SEO performance
• Reduced hosting costs
• Improved security (less attack surface)

Comments with Giscus

For the comment system, I've implemented Giscus, a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. This allows readers to comment using their GitHub accounts, with all discussions stored as GitHub Discussions in my repository. This removes the need for a database and a backend server on my end and offloads user management to GitHub.

I'm excited to continue building and improving this blog. Stay tuned for more content!