My (Chiffon) Nguyen's Academic Website

This website serves as a digital portfolio and blog where I share my work, insights, and journey in academia (NLP+HCI), technology, and anything I'm interested in. Co-created with Claude Code.

⚠️ Warning: Somewhat stable. Theme will be refactored to "astro-academic" and posted to Astro community once all features are complete.

Features

• ⚡ Fast loading, build, and previewing with Astro 5 as static generator
• 💻 Showcase projects, news, blog posts, and publications from .bib file
• ✏️ Writing in Github-flavored markdown, a subset of Obsidian-flavored markdown (wikilinks + callouts), KaTeX-rendered math, code (block and inline, supported by Expressive Code), and embeds
• 📝 Blog supports post-subpost system, with tags and multiple authors
• 🌐 i18n: Support non-English scripts, and (upcoming) i18n page routing and language toggle
• 👩‍💻 Developer experience: type-safe with zod-first schema and TypeScript
• 🔎 SEO friendly and ARIA accessibility compliant
• 🔧 Easily configure theme, page & personal information, content
• [UPCOMING] Show mentions of a post across the web in lieu of comment section
• [UPCOMING] Search with pagefind/typesense

Built With

This website is built on enscribe's astro-erudite template and references from Maggie Appleton's digital garden.

Other inspirations:

• PreviewCard inspired by cworld1's pure theme
• Publications from al-folio

Getting Started

Have Node.js >= 22 (tested with Node 24) and pnpm installed:

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies: pnpm install
3. Start development server: pnpm dev
4. Visit http://localhost:4321
5. Read docs or search TODO across the codebase to complete setup
6. Search OPTIONAL to customize as needed (color themes, icons, etc)