Refreshing my Personal Website

This is my page, finally!

I've wanted to do this for a long time but I was finally able to find some time to refresh my personal website. I've been following Next.js, Gatsby and a few other static site generators but ultimately I choose to build it with Next.js. Next.js is a React Framework that simplifies a lot of the common problems when bulding web applications such as an intuitive page based routing system, automatic code splitting, pages can be pre rendered to se served faster, prefetches that run in the background and much more. You just build up your site in React and it then gets built into plain Html, CSS and JavaScript so that it gets served super fast via CDN.

For hosting I decided to use netlifly for its ease of use but my most favorite feature is to just git push and have it build and deploy automatically. It has a ton more but in the end its really easy and intuitive to use.

I always enjoyed websites that make use of animations and since latelly I have been experimenting a bit with react-spring I decided to use it. When these animations come together with sound I feel most websites gain a lot. Accessibility is for me an important issue so being able to turn both of them off was important. Josh Comeau was my inspiration for quite a few topics that made it into my personal page so a big thank you for providing great content.

I do hope it doesn't take me too long for a refresh and new blog content!