Articles

Technical articles, plus the experiments and learning notes that led to them.

Article12 October 20262 min readSample

Why every app in the ecosystem fetches one registry before it builds, and why a failed fetch should fail the build instead of falling back.

Article28 September 20262 min readSample

A dark theme isn't an inverted light theme. Notes on choosing two palettes, checking contrast, and keeping the first paint in the right colours.

Article14 September 20261 min readSample

Starting a journal with typed data files and a small repository interface, so a database or CMS can arrive later without rewriting the pages.

Experiments and notes

Note5 October 20261 min readSample

Reduced motion isn't 'no transitions at all'. A short list of what to remove and what to keep.

Note21 September 20261 min readSample

Ellipses, a few circles and one CSS animation instead of a 3D library for the hero illustration.