Introduction

Hello future readers! This is my first post on my new blog and my entry into the blogosphere. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to write about yet, but I have a few ideas.

I’m hoping to have some explainers, explorations, and visualisers about various topics that I think about. I’m trying to get into data analysis or data science, so I might write about my data explorations. I also want to write about my general thoughts and experiences.

This blog is my first experience with Astro and MDX. I am liking it so far, it seems easy to use and I’ve been able to do a lot of custom styling. As an example of what it looks like to write an MDX document, here is the source code for this article.

(I know, quines are pretty cliche. But it’s my blog so I can do what I want.)

---
title: 'Introduction'
description: 'Starting off'
pubDate: 'Jun 07 2026'
---
import { Code } from 'astro:components';
import { codeThemes } from '../../lib/shiki-theme.mjs';

Hello future readers! This is my first post on my new blog and my entry into the
blogosphere. I don't know exactly what I'm going to write about yet, but I have
a few ideas.

I'm hoping to have some explainers, explorations, and visualisers about various
topics that I think about. I'm trying to get into data analysis or data science,
so I might write about my data explorations. I also want to write about my
general thoughts and experiences.

This blog is my first experience with Astro and MDX. I am liking it so far, it
seems easy to use and I've been able to do a lot of custom styling. As an
example of what it looks like to write an MDX document, here is the source code
for this article.

(I know, quines are pretty cliche. But it's my blog so I can do what I want.)

export const s = `---
title: 'Introduction'
description: 'Starting off'
pubDate: 'Jun 07 2026'
---
import { Code } from 'astro:components';
import { codeThemes } from '../../lib/shiki-theme.mjs';

Hello future readers! This is my first post on my new blog and my entry into the
blogosphere. I don't know exactly what I'm going to write about yet, but I have
a few ideas.

I'm hoping to have some explainers, explorations, and visualisers about various
topics that I think about. I'm trying to get into data analysis or data science,
so I might write about my data explorations. I also want to write about my
general thoughts and experiences.

This blog is my first experience with Astro and MDX. I am liking it so far, it
seems easy to use and I've been able to do a lot of custom styling. As an
example of what it looks like to write an MDX document, here is the source code
for this article.

(I know, quines are pretty cliche. But it's my blog so I can do what I want.)

export const s = %%;

<Code code={s.replace('%%', String.fromCharCode(96) + s + String.fromCharCode(96))} lang='mdx' embeddedLangs={['tsx']} themes={codeThemes} defaultColor={false} />
`;

<Code code={s.replace('%%', String.fromCharCode(96) + s + String.fromCharCode(96))} lang='mdx' embeddedLangs={['tsx']} themes={codeThemes} defaultColor={false} />