# Notes Site Starter

> A personal site starter with a homepage (about, projects, experience), an MDX blog, and multi-source note sync (Apple Notes today) built with the Next.js App Router.

This is the site index for https://qiyang.dev, a personal site with a homepage and a blog. Its writing, projects, and experience are listed below, followed by developer resources.

## Pages

- [Home](https://qiyang.dev/): Homepage with writing, projects, and experience.
- [Blog](https://qiyang.dev/blog): Index of published articles.
- [Developer docs](https://qiyang.dev/docs): Machine-readable endpoints, Markdown content negotiation, and the content pipeline.

## Writing

- [Removing Storyboard Files](https://qiyang.dev/blog/removing-storyboard-files): A step-by-step guide to removing storyboards from a UIKit project and building the interface entirely in code.
- [It's Still Worth Learning UIKit](https://qiyang.dev/blog/it-is-still-necessary-to-learn-uikit): Why it still pays to learn UIKit
- [Extracting Text from Images](https://qiyang.dev/blog/extract-text-from-images): Extracting text from images with the Vision framework.
- [Analyzing Sentiment in Text](https://qiyang.dev/blog/analyze-sentiment-in-text): Use the Natural Language framework to evaluate the sentiment of text, with the result expressed as a score from -1.0 to 1.0.
- [Web API Cookbook](https://qiyang.dev/blog/web-api-cookbook): some snippets
- [Indie Developer Tech Stack (Next.js Edition)](https://qiyang.dev/blog/indie-developer-tech-stack): An introduction to the tech stack choices I use for indie development
- [Introducing Portfolio Starter Kit](https://qiyang.dev/blog/portfolio-starter-kit): Why I maintain a modern, type-safe Next.js portfolio and MDX blog starter as updates to the original template have slowed.
- [Reflections on AI-Assisted Coding](https://qiyang.dev/blog/reflections-on-ai-assisted-coding): Reflections after six months of using AI coding tools: writing more code does not make you a better developer.

## Projects

- [Notes Site Starter](https://nss.qiyang.dev) (2026): A personal site starter with a homepage and an MDX blog
- [Minimal Expo Starter](https://github.com/qiyangdev/minimal-expo-starter) (2026): A minimal Expo starter for native iOS and Android apps
- [MockKit](https://mockkit.qiyang.dev/) (2025): Create Device Mockups Fast

## Experience

- Xiaomi — Frontend Engineer (2024 — Present)

## Developer resources

- [Developer docs](https://qiyang.dev/docs): Machine-readable endpoints, the content pipeline, and setup instructions.
- [llms.txt](https://qiyang.dev/llms.txt): Markdown index of everything on the site, for LLM tooling.
- [OpenAPI specification](https://qiyang.dev/openapi.yaml): OpenAPI 3.1 description of this site’s public HTTP endpoints.
- [RSS feed](https://qiyang.dev/rss): RSS 2.0 feed of published articles.
- [Sitemap](https://qiyang.dev/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap of indexable URLs.
- [Robots.txt](https://qiyang.dev/robots.txt): Crawler access rules for the site.
- [Source repository](https://github.com/qiyangdev/notes-site-starter): MIT-licensed source code, issues, and pull requests.
- [Deploy on Vercel](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fqiyangdev%2Fnotes-site-starter&project-name=notes-site-starter&repository-name=notes-site-starter): One-click deployment of the starter.

## Feed

- [RSS feed](https://qiyang.dev/rss): Feed of published articles.