A New Beginning

2026-03-27

Welcome to my new digital notebook.

I set this space up because I needed a dedicated place to share my thoughts, but more importantly, I needed a place to leave notes for myself. When you are deep in the trenches of systems programming, building graphics libraries, or debugging C code, it is incredibly easy to lose track of the bigger picture.

This blog is my anchor. It is a repository of my past ideas and technical explorations that I can re-read whenever I need a reminder. It is here to make sure my original motivations stay clear and don't get forgotten in the daily grind.

I am hosting these notes on a custom Static Site Generator I built entirely from scratch in Rust (I will write a dedicated post about how and why I built that later). But since this is the maiden voyage[1][1] The very first journey or trip made by a ship, boat, or sometimes an aircraft after its construction and testing. It traditionally represents a new beginning. source, I need to make sure the engine can actually render my notes properly.

Let's run it through the gauntlet.

Things that need to work perfectly

First, standard text formatting like Bold text and italic text parsing, along with custom JSON frontmatter extraction.

Next, routing images correctly from the public directory:

Image from the internet:

Image from local storage:

It also needs to handle inline code like let x = 10; flawlessly without breaking the surrounding paragraph.

Numbered List

nested bullet item

1. Main item

• Nested bullet item
• Another nested bullet item

nested numbered item

1. Second main item
2. Nested numbered item
3. Another nested numbered item

Footnotes & Tables

Sometimes my notes will need extra context, so it has to handle secret footnotes attached to paragraphs[2][2] This is the footnote text! Cangkang grabs this text and turns it into a beautiful, interactive margin note so it won't clutter the main paragraph.. You actually have seen in the definition of Maiden Voyage.

Table: