Systems Architecture
You might have noticed a recent addition to the top right corner of this blog: I’ve added a global search experience. More specifically, I’ve implemented a hybrid search solution based on OpenAI Embeddings, Supabase, and PostgreSQL full-text search. In this post, I’d like to run through the
Frontend
React has been out in the open for almost a decade now, and the ecosystem has grown exponentially. Pretty much every large company uses React for parts of their stack, and few competing frameworks have come close to attracting a similar market share. I think there are two reasons for
Next.js
When there's a lot of content to go through, finding what you are looking for can become tedious. It's no surprise that most users will just bounce when they cannot find a resource in a certain amount of time. While structuring your pages can already help
Markdown
Markdown is a great format to write formatted content, be it blog posts, documentation, or anything else that comes to mind. With support for interactive elements such as media, code blocks, and even LaTeX, the vast ecosystem provides all tools you need to get everything running. Built on micromark, a
Next.js
With less than two days of work, I completely rebuilt the site you're currently on. With the motivation of creating a faster and more future-proof setup than what I was running before, I dropped features from the old site that I no longer thought of as required and