Hello, world — why I started writing
A short note on what this blog is for: working notes on React Native, Expo, and shipping products that feel good to use.
I've spent years reading other people's blogs to get unstuck — a stray sentence in someone's post has saved me days more than once. This is my attempt to pay that back.
What you'll find here
Mostly working notes. The kind of thing I'd otherwise leave in a scratch file and forget. Expect posts about:
- React Native & Expo — the patterns that survived contact with production.
- Web engineering — Next.js, TypeScript, and the boring choices that age well.
- Product details — the small decisions that make an app feel considered.
I'd rather publish something small and true than sit on a grand post forever. So these will be short, specific, and occasionally wrong (I'll fix them when they are).
How it's built
This site is a static Next.js app. Every post is a single .mdx file with some
frontmatter on top:
---
title: "Hello, world"
date: "2026-07-12"
excerpt: "A short note."
tags: ["writing"]
---
No CMS, no database — just files in a folder, rendered at build time. It shares a design system with my toolkit and links back to the portfolio.
That's it. See you in the next one.