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2026-05-27T00:00:00.000Z

wake up! 16b

2026-05-25T00:00:00.000Z

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

zerostack

2026-05-17T00:00:00.000Z

Erlang news 188

2026-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

The Claude Code Agentic OS Evolution in 3 Steps

2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z

nested links broke the project card. HTML still punishes cut…

2026-05-03T19:11:11.000Z

nested links broke the project card. HTML still punishes cute composition.

bottom chrome had to stop fighting mobile. fixed beats theat…

2026-05-03T19:08:02.000Z

bottom chrome had to stop fighting mobile. fixed beats theatrical when the ticker needs room.

globe latitude lines were almost right, which means wrong. c…

2026-05-03T16:53:55.000Z

globe latitude lines were almost right, which means wrong. curves need to meet the silhouette cleanly.

subsetting the Japanese font dropped the silly 16mb payload.…

2026-05-03T13:10:49.000Z

subsetting the Japanese font dropped the silly 16mb payload. aesthetics still have a cost budget.

feed links belong in the head and the chrome. machines and p…

2026-05-03T12:59:43.000Z

feed links belong in the head and the chrome. machines and people should find the same door.

OG cards at build time. no browser, no drama. satori to SVG,…

2026-05-03T12:59:35.000Z

OG cards at build time. no browser, no drama. satori to SVG, resvg to PNG.

Atom feed first. the firehose should be readable without the…

2026-05-03T12:59:29.000Z

Atom feed first. the firehose should be readable without the site chrome.

Feeds and cards

2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

A site is more than the page you open in a browser.

It needs a feed. It needs metadata. It needs cards that do not look accidental when a link gets shared. These are small surfaces, but they are part of the publishing system.

The feed is the cleanest one. No chrome, no layout, just entries. The card is the opposite: pure presentation, generated at build time so the site still stays static.

Both make the site feel more real. Not bigger. Just reachable from more angles.

likes need logo fallback. taste lists should not break just…

2026-04-30T04:41:01.000Z

likes need logo fallback. taste lists should not break just because an SVG is missing.

micro posts got detail pages. tiny entries still deserve sta…

2026-04-30T04:41:01.000Z

micro posts got detail pages. tiny entries still deserve stable URLs and a way back.

scaled the chrome up by 1.25. the HUD needed density, not wh…

2026-04-29T20:34:10.000Z

scaled the chrome up by 1.25. the HUD needed density, not whitespace pretending to be taste.

404 page can be maximal. if the route is gone, the machine s…

2026-04-29T11:57:15.000Z

404 page can be maximal. if the route is gone, the machine should panic beautifully.

about and now pages needed rails. plain prose alone felt too…

2026-04-29T11:52:51.000Z

about and now pages needed rails. plain prose alone felt too normal for this interface.

transmissions are just links, but they need their own room.…

2026-04-29T11:45:24.000Z

transmissions are just links, but they need their own room. saved attention is content too.

reading page is a log, not a review system. status and ratin…

2026-04-29T11:42:58.000Z

reading page is a log, not a review system. status and rating are enough pressure for now.

projects index should not pretend everything is finished. li…

2026-04-29T11:37:05.000Z

projects index should not pretend everything is finished. live, wip, dead. honest labels beat portfolio gloss.

danger frame is pure theater, but useful theater. it tells t…

2026-04-29T11:21:46.000Z

danger frame is pure theater, but useful theater. it tells the page what kind of machine it lives inside.

nav strip works better as symbols plus short labels. full wo…

2026-04-29T11:19:01.000Z

nav strip works better as symbols plus short labels. full words start feeling like dashboard filler.

marquee text has to self-tile. otherwise the loop exposes th…

2026-04-29T11:14:23.000Z

marquee text has to self-tile. otherwise the loop exposes the trick.

likes needed a schema before they needed polish. name, note,…

2026-04-29T11:05:44.000Z

likes needed a schema before they needed polish. name, note, url, logo, added. taste still needs structure.

Visual kit

2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

The visual language started making sense when it became a kit.

Badge. Counter. Clock. Ticker. Density grid. Globe. Status panel. Danger frame. Small parts with names, not one-off decoration.

That matters because this aesthetic can get sloppy fast. Manga cyberpunk HUD is close to parody if every page invents new chrome. The kit gives the pages a shared vocabulary. It also keeps the content in the middle, where it belongs.

Most of the chrome is decorative. It still needs rules.

Inspiration for this site comes from many places, but most recently when I came across the beutifual art made by Artem Filippov. It deeply resonated with me and inspired this direction of the site. Thank you Artem.

recursive partials were inevitable once chrome started inclu…

2026-04-27T19:20:45.000Z

recursive partials were inevitable once chrome started including chrome. cycle detection keeps the cute idea honest.

journal index wants density. not cards everywhere. rows, num…

2026-04-27T18:24:06.000Z

journal index wants density. not cards everywhere. rows, numbers, status panels, scan rhythm.

the visual kit is mostly small parts. badge, counter, clock,…

2026-04-27T18:15:47.000Z

the visual kit is mostly small parts. badge, counter, clock, equalizer, globe. chrome as vocabulary.