Thoughts on code,
craft & exploration.

An introduction to Svelte 5 runes — the explicit reactive primitives ($state, $derived, $effect, $props) that replace Svelte 4's magic $: syntax and make reactivity predictable, composable, and no longer limited to .svelte files.

A deep dive into the CSS Anchor Positioning API — how anchor-name, position-anchor, position-area, and position-try-fallbacks let you build tooltips and floating elements entirely in CSS, no JavaScript or Floating UI required.

A guide to the CSS customizable select — how appearance: base-select unlocks full styling of native dropdowns including custom icons, rich option content, and picker pseudo-elements, without sacrificing accessibility or dropping in a JS library.

A practical introduction to the JavaScript Temporal API — the ES2026 replacement for Date that gets types right, handles timezones properly, and makes date arithmetic readable without moment.js or date-fns.

A 3,000-acre alpine lake at 5,138 feet in the Oregon Cascades, flanked by Mount Thielsen and Mount Bailey, stocked with 300,000 rainbow trout annually.

The most photographed lighthouse on the West Coast, built in 1894 above the Oregon Coast with a First Order Fresnel lens visible 21 miles at sea.

A long, windswept beach north of Florence where the Oregon Dunes begin and the Pacific delivers its full unfiltered character to anyone standing on the sand.

A 286-foot plunge waterfall in the Oregon Cascades near Willamette Pass — one of the tallest in the state, with a viewing deck, rim trail, and winter snowshoeing season.

A small, quiet Oregon Coast beach between Cannon Beach and Hug Point, with tide pools, sea stacks, and a forested headland that most visitors drive past.