The Quiet Architecture of a Personal Site
· 1 min readA personal site is less a product than a room you keep returning to. Some notes on building one that stays out of the way.
The Long Post: Twenty-Eight Sections on Reading, Building, and Noticing
· 9 min readA deliberately long article used to stress the reading layout, the sticky table of contents, deep heading nesting, and the archive's long-post path. Expect a lot of scrolling and a TOC that has to scroll with it.
Notes on Building a Reading Habit
· 1 min readReading more is less about speed and more about removing the small frictions that keep books closed.
Chaos Test: <escaping>, & symbols, math, media, and unbroken strings
· 4 min readA single feature-dense post built to shake out escaping, deep headings, nesting, wide content, images in loading and failed states, raw HTML, math, and long unbroken strings.
A Field Guide to Terminal Typography
· 1 min readMonospace is a promise about alignment. What to keep from the terminal when you move the interface to paper.
Keeping a Commonplace Book in Public
· 1 min readPublishing fragments changes the way you collect them, mostly for the better.
What Static Sites Still Teach Us
· 1 min readBuild-time thinking is a discipline, not a limitation. A few things static sites get right by default.
The Case for Fewer Dependencies
· 1 min readEvery package is a small ongoing relationship. Some are worth it. Many are not.
Writing as a Form of Thinking
· 1 min readYou do not write to record a thought. You write to find out whether you have one.
First Light
· 1 min readThe first post on a site is always a small act of faith.
Chaos Test: <escaping>, & symbols, emoji 🧪, and an ExtremelyLongUnbrokenTitleTokenThatMustWrapAcrossLinesWithoutBreakingTheBlogIndex
· 1 min readA deliberately long description that keeps going because the blog index needs to prove it can wrap a realistic paragraph-length summary without pushing the date, reading time, tags, or the next post out of place. It repeats a little to make sure the line count is uncomfortable, then it keeps going for one more clause so the last line has a chance to be awkward as well.
yet another blog
· 1 min readThis is another blog
Minimal Post
· 1 min readA 2020 Note
· 1 min readblog
· 1 min readThis is a blog
A 2019 Note
· 1 min readEmpty Body
· 1 min readUndated Notes
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