Hello, world

This is the first post on wrkspc.io. The plan is short essays and small interactive experiments — the kind of page the internet used to have more of.

What’s here

• The landing page has a live Game of Life running in a canvas.
• Posts are written in MDX, so future ones can embed the same kind of interactive components inline with the prose — not just format text.

Formatting, the usual stuff

MDX is Markdown plus JSX, so all the standard formatting still works: italics, bold, inline code, and links.

1. Ordered lists work.
2. So do nested ones:
   • like this
   • and this

Blockquotes look like this — useful for pulling out a quote or an aside that isn’t quite a full callout.

A fenced code block, syntax-highlighted at build time via Shiki:

function step(grid) {
  return grid.map((row, y) =>
    row.map((alive, x) => (alive ? countNeighbors(grid, x, y) : 0)),
  );
}

GFM tables work too:

feature	plain Markdown	MDX
headings, lists, code	yes	yes
tables, footnotes	yes	yes
live components	no	yes
math	no*	yes*

* both need a plugin — see below.

Math

Plain Markdown has no concept of math notation. MDX doesn’t either, out of the box — but the underlying pipeline is remark/rehype, which is pluggable, so this is a config change rather than a workaround.

Inline math works mid-sentence, like the classic $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$, and so does a centered block:

$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}$$

More soon.