From 3d470ccf73764174e8ca47da20423fa91ac92a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elias Almqvist <elalmqvist@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:27:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] front page

---
 src/app/page.tsx | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app/page.tsx b/src/app/page.tsx
index 06cfbbd..c5e1da8 100644
--- a/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ type PostMeta = {
 async function getRecentPosts(): Promise<PostMeta[]> {
   const postsDirectory = path.join(process.cwd(), 'content/essays');
   const files = await fs.readdir(postsDirectory);
-  
+
   const posts = await Promise.all(
     files
       .filter(file => file.endsWith('.mdx'))
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ async function getRecentPosts(): Promise<PostMeta[]> {
         const fullPath = path.join(postsDirectory, file);
         const fileContents = await fs.readFile(fullPath, 'utf8');
         const { data } = matter(fileContents);
-        
+
         return {
           title: data.title,
           createdAt: data.createdAt,
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ async function getRecentPosts(): Promise<PostMeta[]> {
 
   return posts
     .sort((a, b) => new Date(b.createdAt).getTime() - new Date(a.createdAt).getTime())
-    .slice(0, 2); // Get only the 2 most recent posts
+    .slice(0, 4); // Get only the 4 most recent posts
 }
 
 export default async function Home() {
   const recentPosts = await getRecentPosts();
 
   return (
-    <main className="w-full flex items-center justify-center px-4 mt-14">
+    <main className="w-full flex justify-center px-4 mt-14">
       <div className="w-full max-w-screen-lg md:px-4 py-8 space-y-8">
         {/* Intro */}
         <section>
@@ -50,13 +50,21 @@ export default async function Home() {
             <ExternalNav className="flex gap-4" />
           </div>
           <Separator className="-mt-3 mb-4 max-w-[20rem]" />
-          <p className="">
-            CEO of{" "}
-            <ILink href="https://exalaboratories.com" target="_blank">
-              Exa Laboratories (YC S24)
-            </ILink>
-            . Building energy-efficient chips for AI training & inference.
-          </p>
+          <div className="space-y-4">
+            <p className="">
+              CEO of{" "}
+              <ILink href="https://exalaboratories.com" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">
+                Exa Laboratories (YC S24)
+              </ILink>
+              . Building energy-efficient chips for AI training & inference.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+              I'm a dropout, autodidactic polymath, and this is my digital notebook. Everything here is written by me, and everything here is my own opinion or philosophical beliefs. They are not intended to be taken at face value, but rather as a medium for me to personally reflect on my own thoughts as a therapeutic exercise, or just for fun.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+              Based in the <ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">Silicon Valley</ILink> (<ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">San Francisco Bay Area</ILink>), <ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">United States</ILink>. Originally from <ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6lndal" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">Mölndal</ILink>/<ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">Gothenburg</ILink>, <ILink href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" target="_blank" className="font-bold text-md">Sweden</ILink>.
+            </p>
+          </div>
         </section>
 
         {/* Recent Essays */}
@@ -70,7 +78,7 @@ export default async function Home() {
           <ul className="space-y-4">
             {recentPosts.map((post) => (
               <li key={post.slug}>
-                <Link 
+                <Link
                   href={`/essays/${post.slug}`}
                   className="block hover:bg-gray-50 dark:hover:bg-gray-800 p-4 rounded-lg transition"
                 >