Hello, I'm Robin.

A little bit of self intro, I'm a freshman sophomore at the NYU studying Mathematics and Computer Science. (Planning on getting a minor in linguistics) This site serves as a platform for me to document my thoughts, projects, and anything else I find worth sharing. I share random ideas and stuff I created about school, life, etc. (Not any type of category that I want to fall into, journal, diary, because it would feel kind of restrictive on 'how'/'what' should I write about anything.)

If you are viewing this using a text based browser, unfortunately, you won't be able to see most of the content here as I heavily rely on JavaScript to render the content dynamically, and I'm too lazy to add a static fallback. (I found out this problem when I was trying to use Lynx to view my site yesterday. Why did I try to do that? Good question.)

What You Might Find Here

- Posts about random topics I find interesting.
- Small projects, experiments, and creations.
- Thoughts on academic topics, especially from school work.
- Personal reflections or ideas that I simply want to document.

Features

• Blog: Posts about various topics, including school, life, and random ideas.
• Projects: A showcase of personal projects and experiments.
• Comments: Visitors can leave comments on posts, with support for author names and timestamps.
• Dark Mode: Toggle between light and dark themes.
• Math Support: Render mathematical expressions using MathJax.
• Markdown Parsing: Blog posts are written in Markdown and rendered dynamically.
• Notes: Course notes rendered from Markdown (with front-matter), featuring MathJax support and an auto-generated table of contents.
• Pagination & Filtering: Browse blog posts by tag or search with pagination.

Connect with Me

You can find me here:

• GitHub
• LinkedIn

Or you can email me at robinchen@nyu.edu

Tech Stack

This site is built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I'm trying to use minimal dependencies to stay lightweight, the ones being used including:

• js-yaml - parse front-matter in notes
• DOMPurify - sanitize rendered HTML
• MathJax - render LaTeX/math expressions
• marked.js - Markdown -> HTML parsing
• node-fetch - HTTP client for serverless functions
• sanitize-html - clean user input in comments
• @upstash/redis - serverless KV caching
• pg - Neon serverless PostgreSQL driver

Future Plans

I plan to add more features and improve the design over time. Email me if you have suggestions! Currently, some ideas include:

• Improving the comment system (Done)
• Converting all my course notes into markdown (Done partial, in progress)
• Organizing stuff I wrote during the summer into blog posts (In progress)
• Adding a search feature for easier navigation
• Enhance the overall design and responsiveness (Done)
• Supporting more Markdown features (In progress for parsing in general)
• Notifying users of new posts or updates