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Building Better Technical Taxonomies

A guide to organizing technical content with labels that stay useful over time.

The Case for Smaller CSS Systems in Personal Sites

Why a restrained layer of custom CSS is often more useful than an elaborate styling stack for editorial work.

How to Structure MDX Content for Long-Term Maintenance

A practical approach to keeping MDX collections understandable as a site grows.

Designing Calm Interfaces for Knowledge-Heavy Tools

Patterns for building interfaces that hold a lot of information without feeling rushed or crowded.

A good dark mode is more than inverted colors

Dark interfaces need their own contrast decisions instead of a mechanical swap.

Metadata should support, not dominate

Dates, tags, and reading time work best when they sit just behind the title.

Small tables of contents are often enough

A note on keeping article sidebars short and useful.

The homepage feels better when it breathes

A quick note on giving index pages enough room to feel composed.

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2025

Editorial Engine

A publishing system for essays, notes, long-form references, and calm reading layouts.

2024

Field Notes

A lightweight notes environment for collecting research fragments and structured observations.

2024

Reference Atlas

A searchable internal handbook for teams that need durable documentation and examples.

2023

Signal Cache

A compact client-side cache for apps that need optimistic reads without a large state layer.