Site v1.1: Tags
The first devlog for my site (after the project page)! I wanted to start writing these for myself as a personal record, as well as to showcase things that were fun to build. I aim to publish one after an update that I feel is noteworthy enough. This is one of those. :)
In this update:
Visuals
So, as it turns out, when you use macOS Night Shift 24/7, you forget it's on when working with color (or is it just me?). One day I had turned it off and wow, it strained my eyes to look at pure white on pure black. I tinted all of the site's colors with just a bit of the same yellow as links.
For consistency, I also updated the OG images, both static and dynamic. Send a link to the site to a friend to see it in action! ;)
New components
As I've been building out my site, I've been writing fun little components that spruce up the place and make it more my aesthetic, like Comment. Or, that make it convenient to write and showcase my work, like Grid.
All of them are open-source, if you're interested!
I've got a few new ones:
Mention
As I was backfilling my projects, it was 
jamil Khan important to me to shout out my collaborators. I took inspiration from Notion's inline mention, and crafted something similar. Check it out:
A demo of the Mention component, written by 
Edward Shturman
Playground
The playground above is new too! I can pass in editable to let visitors play around with whatever's being demoed.
Tags
As much as I love the natural authoring experience Markdown brings — check out my guide if you want the same setup! — it becomes cumbersome to parse the content within.
Artifacts is my collection of wisdom from across the Internet & literature. I wanted to be able to reference categories of wisdom or types of media — like self-improvement vs. creative work, or tweets vs. books — without it feeling like I'm accessing a database.
Enter: tags!
The tags are in sync with the URL in the form of query parameters. This means that if you have a filter you like, like tweets on life, you can save and share it! This avoids any React state acrobatics.
I'm also happy with how the design turned out. It really plays to the technical vibe of the site in my opinion.
I added tags to my Notes page as well, so as I write more of them, being able to filter by topic will come in handy.
That's it for this release; I hope you enjoyed! Follow me on X for real-time updates as I build things — I'm working on posting more often. :)