Blog · page 18
Notes on engineering, design, and everything in between.
A theme-switch ripple with the View Transitions API
A circle growing from the click point reveals the new theme. The radius must reach the farthest corner, and the custom properties must be cleaned up or they leak into the next switch.
Pagination at build time: why a static site should not page with a query string
The post list is sliced into static pages during the build, so page N is a real route. No client-side paging logic, no query string, just links.
The @/ alias lives in three configs, and all three are required
Deep relative imports are banned project-wide, and the price is configuring the alias in three places. Miss one and you get editor errors, a broken build, or silently dropped styles.
zod as a frontmatter contract: bad articles fail the build
The Content Collections schema is the single source of truth. A title over 120 characters, a mangled date or a string where an array belongs fails immediately instead of silently dropping a page.
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.
A zero-config registry: adding a game means adding a directory
App lists, detail routes, the home page picks and the sitemap are all discovered by import.meta.glob. The price is Vite's hard rule: literal relative paths only.