Overview

In December 2025, during winter break, I was researching MuJoCo for a quadruped robotics project when I stumbled on another student’s personal site with MuJoCo tutorials. I ended up learning MuJoCo from his YouTube lectures and I also got interested in the idea of having a personal website of my own. A place to promote my work and share what I'm working on and learning. Within a few days I bought erolcetinok.com and started building. I chose Next.js and deployed on Vercel. This was my first time doing any web development or site design, so the whole thing was a learning experience. I learned TypeScript, CSS, and common conventions for structure and design. I enjoyed the process and plan to keep expanding and improving the site over time. This project is the first of many I hope to add here. I’ll gradually fill the projects page with past work and new ones as they happen. Thanks for stopping by and being part of the journey.

Technical details

The site is built with Next.js (App Router) and React, written in TypeScript. Styling is Tailwind CSS plus custom CSS with variables for light and dark mode (next-themes). Project write-ups live in MDX files; frontmatter is parsed with gray-matter and content is rendered with next-mdx-remote. The projects page supports category filtering and search. The contact form sends email via an API route and Resend. The site is hosted on Vercel.