Research / Notes / Essays
Research.
An indexed record of ideas, technical investigations, working notes, and longer positions.
Everything, newest first
Unicode as a UI primitive
What if loading states, dividers, and decoration were all just characters? A case for treating unicode as a first-class design material.
On thinking in public
Publishing unfinished thoughts feels risky. It's also the fastest way I know to actually finish them.
Next.js 16 cheatsheet
The handful of Next.js 16 details I keep forgetting: async params, the caching model, and proxy.ts.
Flowing noise fields with a single fragment shader
A practical walkthrough of building the animated green background on this site: simplex noise, fbm, and a fullscreen plane in react-three-fiber.
An ambient garden, not a feed
Feeds optimize for recency and outrage. A garden optimizes for growth and return visits. What changes when your site is a place instead of a stream?
A small taxonomy of digital gardens
Surveying how people structure personal knowledge sites — and where the ideas/research/notes/thoughts split comes from.
Notes on OKLCH for theming
Why this site's greens are defined in OKLCH, and the one Tailwind v4 gotcha that silently breaks dark mode.
In praise of the slow web
Not everything needs to be fast, viral, and optimized. Some corners of the web should feel like a quiet room.