MDX Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing

Balancing the age-old simplicity of words on paper with the myriad creative possibilities of the web is a tension as old as the web itself. Leaning into that overlap can bring new dimensions not just to the things we write but also to how we write them. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/06/mdx-or-how-i-learned-love-multimedia-writing/

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