My Self-Hosting Setup
A brief overview of my homelab and self-hosting setup.
Writing
Blog
Notes on design, typography, and the parts of building for the web that reward slowing down.
The Grammar of Negative Space
Emptiness in a layout is not the absence of design. It is the part of the design that tells the reader where to look, how fast to move, and when to stop.
Ink in the Browser
How a fluid simulation ends up on the front page of a blog theme without wrecking the performance budget — half-float buffers, a capped pixel ratio, and knowing when to stop drawing.
The Case for Zero JavaScript
An article page is a solved problem. Every kilobyte of script you add to one is a bet that you can rebuild the browser's own behaviour better than the browser does.
Reading at the Speed of Paper
Screens taught us to skim. A few old typographic constraints — measure, leading, contrast, and a serif that was drawn for text — can hand the page back its pace.
Six Centuries of Sumi-e
Ink painting is a medium with no undo. What a fifteenth-century monk understood about committing to a stroke turns out to apply fairly directly to building things.
Notes on Vermilion
One accent colour, used sparingly, does more work than a palette. A short history of the red that shows up on gates, seals, and — here — about four elements per page.