A slightly-too-honest log of what I'm building, why it's taking longer than planned, and what I learned anyway.https://example.com/https://example.com/blog/static-sites-revisited/https://example.com/blog/static-sites-revisited/Why I moved this blog back to a fully static build after two years of chasing server-rendered features.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/three-day-memory-leak/https://example.com/blog/three-day-memory-leak/A slow leak in a Node worker, the wrong assumptions that hid it, and what finally found it.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/year-of-writing-in-public/https://example.com/blog/year-of-writing-in-public/What changed after I started publishing drafts instead of waiting for finished thoughts.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/rebuilding-terminal-setup/https://example.com/blog/rebuilding-terminal-setup/Small, deliberate changes to a workflow I use twelve hours a day.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/small-tools-that-stuck/https://example.com/blog/small-tools-that-stuck/A year-end look back at which weekend projects survived contact with daily use, and which quietly died.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/why-every-post-needs-a-tag/https://example.com/blog/why-every-post-needs-a-tag/Reworking the tag pages taught me more about the site's actual shape than writing the posts did.Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/dead-link-checker-script/https://example.com/blog/dead-link-checker-script/A small Node script that walks every post and flags broken links before a reader finds them first.Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/mobile-only-layout-shift/https://example.com/blog/mobile-only-layout-shift/A CLS regression that never appeared on desktop, traced back to a font fallback with different metrics.Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/toc-without-a-framework/https://example.com/blog/toc-without-a-framework/Forty lines of vanilla JS and an IntersectionObserver instead of reaching for a plugin.Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/worker-threads-i-didnt-need/https://example.com/blog/worker-threads-i-didnt-need/A build script got 40% slower after I 'optimized' it with worker threads, and what that taught me about profiling first.Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/not-adding-analytics-again/https://example.com/blog/not-adding-analytics-again/Every few months I consider adding a visit counter, and every few months I remember why I don't.Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/lighthouse-in-the-build/https://example.com/blog/lighthouse-in-the-build/Wiring Lighthouse CI into the pipeline so a performance regression fails the build instead of getting noticed later.Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/too-many-npm-scripts/https://example.com/blog/too-many-npm-scripts/How a package.json with thirty scripts got refactored down to five I can actually remember.Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/reduced-motion-audit/https://example.com/blog/reduced-motion-audit/Going through every transition on the site one by one to check it actually respects prefers-reduced-motion.Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/container-queries-fixed-it/https://example.com/blog/container-queries-fixed-it/Swapping a media-query hack for a container query solved a card layout bug I'd been patching around for months.Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/build-failed-i-was-grateful/https://example.com/blog/build-failed-i-was-grateful/A Zod schema catching a malformed frontmatter date before it ever reached a reader.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/cache-headers-explained/https://example.com/blog/cache-headers-explained/Writing out cache-control rules for a static site forced me to actually understand what they do.Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/git-bisect-four-minutes/https://example.com/blog/git-bisect-four-minutes/A regression I'd been guessing at for a week, solved by finally trusting the tool built for exactly this.Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/self-hosting-fonts/https://example.com/blog/self-hosting-fonts/Self-hosting two font families cut a render-blocking request and a chunk of layout shift in one afternoon.Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/inside-view-transitions/https://example.com/blog/inside-view-transitions/What I learned falling down the astro:transitions rabbit hole trying to get one cross-fade to feel right.Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/flaky-test-only-on-ci/https://example.com/blog/flaky-test-only-on-ci/A flaky accessibility test, a race condition in a fade transition, and the fix that was one attribute long.Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/getting-the-rss-feed-right/https://example.com/blog/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.Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/first-real-test-suite/https://example.com/blog/first-real-test-suite/How a two-line 'does the page load' check turned into a Playwright suite I actually trust.Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://example.com/blog/astro-image-pipeline/https://example.com/blog/astro-image-pipeline/Ripping out a hand-rolled image resizing script in favor of Astro's built-in `<Image />` component.Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT