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Essays, not a content calendar. Each of these exists because a project taught me something specific enough to be worth writing down. Quality over cadence; the count goes up when the work says so.
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03 essays, newest first01 / July 7, 2026 / 5 min
Deleting 93,000 lines
The hardest part of my best rewrite was not the code I wrote, it was the working code I threw away, and the one-sentence test that decided what died.
read the note02 / July 7, 2026 / 4 min
Real-time without a cron job
Deadlines need enforcing and cron jobs fail silently, so my group decision app has none: expiry is checked on every read, and the live stream doubles as the timer.
read the note03 / July 7, 2026 / 5 min
An OKLCH token pipeline that catches contrast bugs in CI
Every color pair was verified numerically before it became a token, and the accessibility scan still caught a 1.3 to 1 contrast bug. Both checks stay, because they fail differently.
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