Blog
Notes on engineering, design, and everything in between.
Why I built yet another personal site
Not because there was nowhere to write, but because there was nowhere to put writing, small games and tools side by side.
Shipping a static site is not "upload the folder": caching, compression, honest 404s
Almost every static-hosting bug lives in response headers. Which files may be cached forever, which may not be cached at all, and why a static site must never use an SPA fallback.
Pushing first-load JS to zero with Astro islands
From "async import" to "hydrate on demand" — what each of the three lazy-loading layers actually solves, with the code that runs on this site.
321 assertions, no test framework: why pure logic must import nothing
My test suite is `node scripts/selftest.ts` — no framework, no dependencies. The price is that every module it touches must have zero relative imports, and that price bought a codebase shape.
Full-text search on a static site: index at build time, no backend at runtime
A static site does not need Algolia to have search. Generate the index during the build, run the query entirely in the browser, and pay a few seconds of build time.
Turning screen-printing limits into design tokens
This site's visual direction is Riso screen printing. What I actually built was the printing constraints as tokens, so retheming touched two files and no component changed.