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Code Block Features Showcase
Walk through the advanced code-block features: line numbers, line highlighting, title bars, diff colors, word-wrap toggle, and plaintext fallback.
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Amytis provides beautiful syntax highlighting for dozens of programming languages. Here are a few examples within the series context. For a comprehensive showca...
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All Articles →Uncategorized·2026-02-20
i18n in a Static Next.js Blog: Client-Side Toggle vs URL-Based Routing
A deep dive into the trade-offs between client-side language switching and proper URL-based locale routing for a statically exported Next.js digital garden.
Showcase·2026-02-20
Multimedia Showcase: Video, Podcasts & Embeds
A comprehensive test of multimedia embedding support — YouTube, Vimeo, podcasts, livestreams, HTML5 native media, and audio platforms.
Engineering·2026-02-15
Syntax Highlighting
Amytis provides beautiful syntax highlighting for dozens of programming languages. Here are a few examples within the series context. For a comprehensive showca...
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All Flows →Using Claude Code
Been using Claude Code for a week now as a daily coding assistant. A few observations so far. It is most useful for tasks where the shape of the solution is cle...
JSDoc type comments
Finally moved a mid-sized project from JSDoc type comments to proper TypeScript. The migration took about half a day — less than expected. The biggest win is no...
Tried a new approach to note-taking today: writing a one-paragraph summary immediately after reading something, without looking back at the source. If you can't...
Spent the afternoon profiling a React app with too many unnecessary re-renders. The culprit was a context provider wrapping the entire tree that updated on ever...
Tested multimedia embedding in Amytis today. Since rehype-raw is enabled, standard HTML <iframe>, <video>, and <audio> tags work directly inside Markdown — no p...
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