Welcome

This version of CHANGHYUN.me is built with React and styled using TailwindCSS. It’s fast, minimal, and flexible enough to keep evolving without starting over.

I made a conscious decision to avoid traditional CSS altogether — no SCSS, no BEM. Instead, I chose to stay fully within the Tailwind ecosystem, pushing its utility-first model to the edge. That constraint actually made things more fun and deliberate.

I used to split my editor just to keep up with my own CSS. With Tailwind, I finally reclaimed half my screen.

The site runs on Next.js — mostly because it handles routing and rendering cleanly out of the box, and I’ve gotten used to how it balances flexibility with convention.

Hosting is handled by Vercel. The free tier covers everything I need for now, and I’m totally fine paying once it doesn’t. I chose it because it saves me from hours of server setup (which always feels minor but ends up eating time), deployment is literally just git push, and things like SSL and basic security are pre-configured.

For blog content, I built a custom parser that structures content into reusable objects — making it easy to support multiple formats later (like Markdown, HTML, YAML) via clean imports. I could’ve gone with an off-the-shelf MD parser, but I wanted something more purpose-built and minimal — with less magic and more control.

This makes the Journal and Sandbox sections more than static blogs — they’re rendered from structured data that I can query, transform, or re-render any way I want.

(For now, all content is managed directly on the file system — no database involved. So please, no hacking attempts 😅.)

Syntax highlighting is done via Prism, and the layout components are fully modular, making it easy to inject new sections or switch styles as needed.