stevehou.com

Personal site — home, work, blog, readings, and a "grab lunch" form.

Built with Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, and Tailwind. Blog posts are Markdown files; projects and readings are TypeScript data.

Local development

npm install
cp .env.local.example .env.local   # then fill in RESEND_API_KEY
npm run dev

Site runs at http://localhost:3000.

Editing content

• Blog post — add a Markdown file in content/blog/<slug>.md with frontmatter:

  ---
  title: "Post title"
  date: "2026-05-09"
  excerpt: "One-line summary (optional)."
  ---
  
  Post body in Markdown.

• Projects — edit src/lib/projects.ts.
• Reading recommendations — edit src/lib/readings.ts.
• About / homepage copy — edit src/app/page.tsx.

Lunch form

Posts to /api/lunch, which uses Resend to email [email protected]. Set RESEND_API_KEY in .env.local (locally) and in Vercel's project env vars (production).

By default, mail is sent from [email protected] (Resend's sandbox). Sandbox messages can only be delivered to the email address that registered the Resend account. Once you've verified your own sending domain in Resend, set LUNCH_FROM_EMAIL to use it.

Deploying to Vercel

1. Push this repo to GitHub.
2. Go to vercel.com/new and import the repo.
3. In the project settings, add the environment variable RESEND_API_KEY.
4. Click Deploy.

Vercel auto-rebuilds on every push to main.