The idea
I've been building small things with AI tools for the past year and had nowhere to put them. The projects lived in scattered folders, the lessons lived in my head, and the writing lived nowhere.
So I built Between Pours: a place to document the work, think out loud, and leave a breadcrumb trail for the next version of me.
What I used
- Next.js (App Router) for the framework
- Tailwind CSS v4 for styling
- MDX for content — so posts can include real code and components
- Claude as co-pilot throughout
What I learned
Building this site was itself a lesson in the stack. The App Router still surprises me. MDX frontmatter is fussier than it looks. And serif fonts on a warm background go a long way toward making something feel intentional rather than incidental.
More to come.