Performance
Shipping search without a server
Part three of building this blog — full-text search from a static index with Pagefind, costing nothing at rest and loading only on demand.
Archive
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Engineering
SEO without a marketing team
Part two of building this blog — the complete technical SEO layer for a personal site, and the inputs that actually move rankings.
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Engineering
Designing a content model that cannot break
Part one of building this blog — a Zod-validated content schema that makes broken articles impossible to publish, not merely discouraged.
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Engineering
Choosing boring technology on purpose
Novelty in your stack is a loan against future maintenance. Why proven tools win for solo builders, and where the innovation budget should go.
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Design
The discipline of removing things
Good interfaces are built by subtraction. A practical method for deleting UI, and why every element must pay rent in reader attention.
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Design
Typography is the interface
On a text site, type is not part of the design — it is the design. The four decisions that matter and the defaults that quietly sabotage reading.
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Performance
Performance budgets are a design decision
A page-weight budget set before the first mockup changes what gets designed at all. Treating speed as engineering cleanup is why sites are slow.
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Performance
Measuring Core Web Vitals without fooling yourself
Lab scores lie to you politely. How to measure LCP, INP, and CLS in ways that reflect what readers on real phones actually experience.
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Engineering
Why static sites win for long-form writing
For a single-author publication, static generation beats every server-rendered alternative on speed, cost, security, and survival. Here's the case.