Hello, world

title: Hello, world date: 2026-05-23 summary: Why I built this site, and what I plan to write about. tags: [meta, intro]

This is the first post on tanishqpatidar.dev. The plan is to write about what I'm building — small experiments, deeper notes on architecture, and the occasional opinion piece on developer tooling.

Why a custom site

I wanted a place that's mine — not a Medium feed, not a Notion page. Something I can version-control, tweak end to end, and turn into a small lab for trying things.

Some of those things will become entries in /tools. The whole site is structured so that adding a tool is just dropping a page.tsx under app/tools/.

A code sample

Here's a tiny TypeScript function, just to verify the syntax highlighter does its job:

type PostMeta = {
  slug: string;
  title: string;
  date: string;
  tags: string[];
};
 
export function recent(posts: PostMeta[], n = 3): PostMeta[] {
  return [...posts]
    .sort((a, b) => (a.date < b.date ? 1 : -1))
    .slice(0, n);
}

That's it. More to come.