Hello, world!

So... I'm starting a blog. About software development. Original, I know. Even this joke is probably not original (neither is the design of the page, which I lifted straight out of the Next.js introduction tutorial).

Originality aside, this blog is the first real project that I've built using Next.js. It's two purposes are to get me learning about front-end development and to share some cool stuff with the world.

Until now, my lack of front-end development skills has been a huge limiting factor in the kinds of projects that I could make. So what better time to fix that than now, when Next.js 13 has just been released, with beta support for some shiny new features like async/await in server components and the new app/ directory conventions.

There are some rough edges, like the necessity of using a client component in order to update the title of a page after client-side navigation. But that is to be expected from a beta release, especially when the most important features are still being discussed in the React RFC.

Anyway, I'm pretty stoked about using this bleeding edge front-end tech, and about posting some (hopefully) interesting content here.

See you around!