Notes

Short essays and durable notes on content systems, frontend craft, static publishing, and the habits that keep projects moving.

A Carnival GSAP Animation Playground

A carnival-themed GSAP note with scoped scroll rides, hover tricks, balloon pops, and plugin demos arranged as prose-and-booth acts.

June 4, 2026 ~1 min read

Frontend Animation Astro

Making Site Search Available to WebMCP

WebMCP turns the site's static Pagefind index into a discoverable search tool that agents can call without changing the site's static-first architecture.

May 24, 2026 ~1 min read

WebMCP Search Astro

Looking Back at the Web

How early HTML, CSS, and JavaScript shaped the modern web, from linked documents and styling problems to component frameworks.

May 20, 2026 ~3 min read

HTML CSS JavaScript

Small Improvements That Compound

Recent site refinements reduced hidden asset work, quieted the visual system, and kept the static baseline fast.

May 8, 2026 ~1 min read

Performance Design

Vue Islands With a Job

A rule of thumb for using Vue islands in Astro only when readers need stateful interaction after the page loads.

May 2, 2026 ~1 min read

Vue Frontend

Search That Belongs on a Static Site

Pagefind adds local search to a static Astro site without a service account, network dependency, or turning the whole site into an application.

April 24, 2026 ~1 min read

Search Pagefind

Astro as the Default

Why a writing site benefits from static-first architecture, deliberate islands, resilient HTML, and a JavaScript budget tied to user value.

April 18, 2026 ~1 min read

Astro Architecture