Mengke's blog

About

A bit of background on who I am, what I do, and why I started this blog. Nothing too serious, just a little intro to the person typing away behind the scenes.
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Hi there

I'm Mengke, a software engineer from Peking, China. I have a passion for all things Javascript, and I enjoy building web applications. I work mainly with Typescript, Vue, React, NodeJS, and TailwindCSS.

I started this blog as a way to document and share stuff I have learned and found useful as a software engineer. Building and writing things down is a great way for me to solidify my understanding of new concepts and ideas. I hope my blog could be a helpful resource for fellow devs who interested in web dev, and related technologies.

I'm currently learning Japanese and am interested in Japanese culture. はじめまして、よろしくお願いします。

I would be highly appreciated if you could leave your comments and thoughts on what I have written .

Tech stack

This blog is hosted on Vercel, built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS using Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog.

A huge thanks to Timothy Lin for the minimal, lightweight, and super easy-to-customize blog starter.

A few major over-engineering-changes from the original repo:

  • Upgrading to React 18, Next 14 (Using App router).
  • Adopting Typescript, committing with Conventional Commits.
  • Monitoring site with Umami website analytics.
  • Theming in dark mode with Github dark dimmed colors for better contrast.
  • Making a lot of changes to the UI, new homepage design, adding ProfileCard, CareerTimeline components, adding /friends, /snippets, /resume(coding...) page, etc.

See my Github repository for this blog.

Legacy versions

I started this blog since 2023 and up until now it has 1 legacy versions:

Brief timeline of my blog

Jul 29, 2023 - now

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2024.10.20Version 2.0
2024.07.29🎉 First Anniversary - The year Mengke'blog was launched
2024.05.03Added Health Status
2023.11.20Added Microsoft Clarity
2023.10.25Added Gallery
2023.08.06Added theme switch sound effects
2023.08.01Added Giscus comment
2023.07.30Added Friends and Analysis functions
2023.07.29Publish

Assets

Most of the images in my blog come from Unsplash, the illustrations are sourced from Storyset, and the SVGs and icons are provided by Lucide and IconFont.

Thanks for the free resources

Contact

Reach out to me at [email protected] or find me on social media:

Support

If you like my work, consider supporting me:

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