About Oliver's Notes - Why This Blog Exists
Oliver's Notes is my personal blog about web development, design, SEO, and AI. It's not a tutorial factory or a content farm - it's a place where I write about things I've actually built, problems I've actually hit, and ideas I find worth sharing.
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Oliver's Notes is my personal space on the web. It lives at blog.mrakovics.com and covers the topics I work with every day: React, Next.js, SEO, AI, and the everyday reality of being a developer.
The name is intentionally simple. These are notes - things I've figured out, things I'm still figuring out, and things I want to have written down somewhere I can find them again. If they're useful to someone else, even better.
Why I Built It
I've been building for a while now. I've solved quite a few problems, made tons of mistakes, and gathered a lot of knowledge that has mostly lived in my head or in scattered notes. At some point, I felt it was important to write it down properly.
What I Write About
The blog covers a handful of categories that reflect what I actually spend my time on:
- React & Next.js: component patterns, architecture decisions, performance, and things that don't show up in the docs
- SEO: technical and programmatic SEO, site architecture, structured data, and making things findable
- AI: practical uses, workflows, and honest takes on what's actually useful versus what's just noise
- WorldSkills: competition experience, preparation, and what I learned from winning
- Daily Life: the less technical side: observations, process, and what it's actually like to work in this field
- Other: sometimes, I may write about topics that are not listed here. :)
Posts tend to be specific rather than broad. I'm not trying to write "The Complete Guide to Next.js" - I'm writing about the specific problem I ran into and how I solved it.
The Tone
I write the way I'd explain something to a colleague. Direct, specific, and without unnecessary padding. I don't add filler paragraphs to hit a word count, and I don't soften technical points to appeal to the widest possible audience.
If something is complicated, I'll say so. If I'm not sure about something, I'll say that too. Honesty about what I know and don't know is more useful than false confidence.
Who Is This For?
Primarily, it's for developers who are already working in the React and Next.js ecosystem and want something more specific than beginner tutorials. But honestly, if you find a post useful, it doesn't really matter where you're coming from.
I'm not chasing a particular audience. I'm writing about things I find interesting and useful, and trusting that some of the right people will find their way here through search or word of mouth.
Privacy
This site doesn't collect or store any personal data. It's deployed on Vercel, which provides basic built-in analytics - page views and traffic patterns, nothing tied to individual users. No cookies, no tracking scripts, no third-party data collection.