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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.

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.

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.

self-hosted fonts make the site feel more like an artifact a…

2026-04-27T18:05:39.000Z

self-hosted fonts make the site feel more like an artifact and less like a page borrowing clothes.

kanji belongs in constants, not sprinkled through templates…

2026-04-27T17:59:22.000Z

kanji belongs in constants, not sprinkled through templates like confetti.

fixed the partial-in-partial bug. recursive expansion with c…

2026-04-27T14:22:00.000Z

fixed the partial-in-partial bug. recursive expansion with cycle detection. five lines, took an hour to find.

RSS chrome should disappear when the section is disabled. fe…

2026-04-26T22:38:02.000Z

RSS chrome should disappear when the section is disabled. feature flags should affect the furniture too.

dev server has file watch and SSE reload. small luxury, larg…

2026-04-26T22:27:05.000Z

dev server has file watch and SSE reload. small luxury, large difference when tuning pages by feel.

tiny template renderer. escaped variables by default, raw on…

2026-04-26T21:59:38.000Z

tiny template renderer. escaped variables by default, raw only when asked. good enough beats clever here.

frontmatter validation is boring until it saves the archive…

2026-04-26T21:54:23.000Z

frontmatter validation is boring until it saves the archive from one bad note.

markdown first, shiki second. code blocks need to look cared…

2026-04-26T21:45:59.000Z

markdown first, shiki second. code blocks need to look cared for even when the site is still bones.