Thoughts on code,
craft & exploration.

Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface area you actually need is tiny.

Next.js 16.3 stops firing a prefetch request for every link in the viewport and caches one reusable loading shell per route instead. Here's what changes and how to turn it on.

The SPIVA scorecards are the most-cited evidence in the passive-versus-active debate. Here is what they actually measure, why survivorship and persistence do more work than any single year's headline, and where the argument gets genuinely interesting.

Most Obsidian friction is the round trip from keyboard to mouse and back. Here is how the command palette, a short list of hotkeys, and a little usage data get rid of it.

Chrome 148 ships experimental support for filling HTML placeholders out of order and streaming markup into the DOM. Here's how the new template-for and streamHTML APIs work, and what they replace.

On-chain lending replaces credit checks with collateral, loan officers with a utilization curve, and collections with bots. Here is what each of those swaps actually costs you.

Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command. Here's how to design layouts worth saving, and the gotcha that trips everyone up.

React 19.2's Activity component hides a subtree instead of unmounting it, so state, scroll position, and DOM survive the round trip. Here's how it behaves, what it does to your Effects, and where it costs you.

Next.js 16 gave cache invalidation two different functions instead of one, and the split maps to a real distinction: content that can lag versus content the user just typed.