Notes

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

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Lucide Icons That Fit the Site

Small icons, big role: why Lucide fits this site and how Astro and Vue bring its SVGs to life with clear labels.

September 20, 2026~3 min read

Design Astro Accessibility

The Back Button Is Part of the Design

What fixing the back button on this site taught me about preserving interactions, refreshing preferences, and testing the return trip.

September 12, 2026~2 min read

Design Frontend Maintenance

Making Contrast a Build Constraint

How this site turns APCA contrast targets into build-time checks for semantic color roles across light and dark themes.

August 7, 2026~4 min read

Accessibility Design CSS

Keeping Technical Debt Deliberate

How this site reduces technical debt through smaller modules, deterministic builds, focused tests, and deliberate platform choices.

July 13, 2026~3 min read

Architecture Maintenance

How This Site Uses Design Tokens

How this site’s layered design tokens keep color, typography, motion, focus, and expressive pages consistent without replacing Tailwind utilities.

July 11, 2026~3 min read

Design CSS Frontend

Using the Golden Section on This Site

How the golden section shapes this site’s typography, layout, portfolio frames, and modal behavior without turning proportion into decoration.

June 29, 2026~4 min read

Design Frontend

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, 2026~8 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