How I created my Digital Garden

I chose Next.js as the javascript framework to use for this blog for it's ease of use and great SEO support.

Then I decided to use TailwindCSS to style the blog, because it's the hot thing to do right now and web development is all about chasing trends, right?

I knew I wanted to write without using regular React components everywhere, because they're a PITA. I thought about use a CMS^[1]1I've also had bad experiences recently trying out Strapi, but even fancy CMS's don't facilitate embedding fancy web elements very well. For these reasons, I decided to try out MDX. It's been a huge success, allowing me to customise my Markdown components with Tailwind and allowing me to embed cool sidenotes as well. One downside is that all the content is stored in the source of the website - no pretty CMS to write in for me. However, Prettier can be configured to produce a pretty nice MDX experience - for example, line lengths of 80 are useful for writing, but is too low for regular JSX / React components in my opinion.