Aug 14, 2026
Static Sites, Revisited
Why I moved this blog back to a fully static build after two years of chasing server-rendered features.
Making things, mostly on evenings and weekends.
A slightly-too-honest log of what I'm building, why it's taking longer than planned, and what I learned anyway.
Jul 29, 2026
Notes on a Three-Day Memory Leak
A slow leak in a Node worker, the wrong assumptions that hid it, and what finally found it.
Jun 2, 2026
A Year of Writing in Public
What changed after I started publishing drafts instead of waiting for finished thoughts.
Apr 18, 2026
Rebuilding My Terminal Setup, Slowly
Small, deliberate changes to a workflow I use twelve hours a day.
Jan 18, 2026
The Small Tools I Actually Kept Using
A year-end look back at which weekend projects survived contact with daily use, and which quietly died.
Dec 21, 2025
Why Every Post Needed at Least One Tag
Reworking the tag pages taught me more about the site's actual shape than writing the posts did.
Nov 16, 2025
A Fifty-Line Script That Catches My Dead Links
A small Node script that walks every post and flags broken links before a reader finds them first.
Oct 26, 2025
Chasing a Layout Shift That Only Showed Up on Mobile
A CLS regression that never appeared on desktop, traced back to a font fallback with different metrics.
Sep 14, 2025
A Table of Contents Without a Framework
Forty lines of vanilla JS and an IntersectionObserver instead of reaching for a plugin.
Aug 10, 2025
Trying Worker Threads for a Job That Didn't Need Them
A build script got 40% slower after I 'optimized' it with worker threads, and what that taught me about profiling first.
Jul 20, 2025
Deciding Not to Add Analytics, Again
Every few months I consider adding a visit counter, and every few months I remember why I don't.
Jun 29, 2025
Making Lighthouse Part of the Build, Not an Afterthought
Wiring Lighthouse CI into the pipeline so a performance regression fails the build instead of getting noticed later.
Jun 8, 2025
Too Many npm Scripts
How a package.json with thirty scripts got refactored down to five I can actually remember.
May 17, 2025
Auditing Every Animation for Reduced Motion
Going through every transition on the site one by one to check it actually respects prefers-reduced-motion.
Apr 5, 2025
Container Queries Made One Layout Bug Disappear
Swapping a media-query hack for a container query solved a card layout bug I'd been patching around for months.
Mar 22, 2025
The Build Failed and I Was Grateful
A Zod schema catching a malformed frontmatter date before it ever reached a reader.
Feb 27, 2025
Cache Headers, Finally Explained to Myself
Writing out cache-control rules for a static site forced me to actually understand what they do.
Feb 8, 2025
Git Bisect Found It in Four Minutes
A regression I'd been guessing at for a week, solved by finally trusting the tool built for exactly this.
Jan 11, 2025
Why I Stopped Loading Fonts From Google
Self-hosting two font families cut a render-blocking request and a chunk of layout shift in one afternoon.
Dec 14, 2024
A Weekend Inside View Transitions
What I learned falling down the astro:transitions rabbit hole trying to get one cross-fade to feel right.
Nov 9, 2024
The Test That Only Failed on CI
A flaky accessibility test, a race condition in a fade transition, and the fix that was one attribute long.
Oct 19, 2024
Getting the RSS Feed Right
Three small bugs in a feed nobody complained about, found only because I finally opened it in a real reader.
Sep 28, 2024
Writing My First Real Test Suite
How a two-line 'does the page load' check turned into a Playwright suite I actually trust.
Sep 5, 2024
Letting Astro Own My Images
Ripping out a hand-rolled image resizing script in favor of Astro's built-in `<Image />` component.