Some Information

Background and choice of design

I started digging through the internet back in middle school to collect and read scientific textbooks. While doing so, I couldn't help but encounter a lot of interesting computer science and math blogs. As a result, I got inspired by some of them and decided to create this website: a place for me to upload my writings and projects. I primarily write about math, programming, and physics, and occasionally about everyday topics like food reviews.

This website was formally built back in summer of 2024, but I've been writing a lot of the content on this website on LaTeX documentations way before that. I coded this website from scratch using HTML, CSS, and vanilla Javascript (ancient and primitive, I know, but they works). For this reason, the website might not be very well-optimized, so please excuse me. To view the source code, click on the logo on the side navigation bar or follow this link.

• Question: Why not use a framework or a static site generator?
• Answer: I wanted to learn the basics of web development, so in order to learn, I must create things. This website the became my first web project. Plus, this site has no complex API calls, so a framework would be overkill, although using a framework would have probably been a bit easier. Ok, but why not a static site generator like Jekyll? I feel like static site generators offer much less control over things, such as the ability to easily create highly customizable components like this one:
  The Fourier transform of the impulse train is another impulse train:

  \[ \mathcal{F}\{\delta_T(t)\} = \frac{2\pi}{T}\sum_{k=-\infty}^{\infty} \delta(\omega - k\omega_s), \qquad \omega_s = \frac{2\pi}{T}. \]

  or this one below (click on the arrow!)

  
  
  Proof

  The proof is left as an exercise to the reader.

Structure

There are two types of blogs on this website: articles and posts. Articles are technical and focus specifically on topics in math, computer science, physics, or engineering. Posts, on the other hand, are shorter, usually non-technical, and primarily cover everyday niche topics.

Third party tools

Earlier, I did say that I built this website from scratch. I was lying. Nobody builds anything from scratch, we're all standing on the shoulder of someone. Some other tools I used are MathJax, a javascript library that helps display fancy equation like this:

I also use prism.js to provide some nice code syntax-highlighting for websites like below. You can change the code theme in the setting

#pragma once

template<typename Func>
double numerical_derivative(Func f, double x, double h) {
    // Use the central difference formula for better accuracy
    return (f(x + h) - f(x - h)) / (2.0 * h);
}

About the logo: that's the trajectory of a double pendulum in a computer simulation.

Check list

The general layout of this website should be completed, but I will still add some new features every once in a while, if I have time. This website is still relatively new anyway.

Some features I might add in the future:

• A comment system.
• A screen reader for better accessibility.
• Export page as pdf.