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A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.

CSS field-sizing: Auto-Growing Textareas Without a Line of JavaScript thumbnail
developmentJul 2, 2026· 3 min
CSS field-sizing: Auto-Growing Textareas Without a Line of JavaScript
The auto-growing textarea has been a JavaScript rite of passage for years. A single CSS declaration now does the whole job, and it works on inputs and…
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Fallow: A Codebase Truth Layer for Agent-Written Code thumbnail
developmentJul 1, 2026· 4 min
Fallow: A Codebase Truth Layer for Agent-Written Code
Fallow is a Rust-native tool that maps your whole TS/JS codebase to catch dead code, duplication, and architecture drift.
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Building a Claude Code Status Line With Usage Bars and a Clickable Repo thumbnail
developmentJun 29, 2026· 3 min
Building a Claude Code Status Line With Usage Bars and a Clickable Repo
A walkthrough of a custom Claude Code status line that renders context and rate-limit usage as colored bars and turns your repo name into a clickable link.
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The Navigation API: Stop Wrestling with history.pushState thumbnail
developmentJun 29, 2026· 3 min
The Navigation API: Stop Wrestling with history.pushState
The Navigation API hit Baseline in early 2026, giving SPAs a single, purpose-built place to intercept and manage routing.
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Grimicorn Neon: When a Calm Theme Goes Loud thumbnail
developmentJun 28, 2026· 3 min
Grimicorn Neon: When a Calm Theme Goes Loud
The high-voltage variant of Grimicorn keeps every semantic role and swaps in eight electric hexes. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and the contrast…
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scheduler.yield(): The One-Liner That Fixes Your INP thumbnail
developmentJun 28, 2026· 3 min
scheduler.yield(): The One-Liner That Fixes Your INP
A practical look at scheduler.yield(), the browser API that breaks up long tasks and keeps the main thread responsive without the setTimeout penalty.
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Building Grimicorn: One Palette, Fourteen Tools thumbnail
developmentJun 27, 2026· 3 min
Building Grimicorn: One Palette, Fourteen Tools
How I turned a single calm, low-fatigue color palette into matching dark and light themes for VS Code, terminals, Obsidian, Claude Code and ten other tools…
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GraphQL Fragments: Let Each Component Own Its Data thumbnail
developmentJun 25, 2026· 3 min
GraphQL Fragments: Let Each Component Own Its Data
GraphQL fragments let each component declare exactly the fields it needs, eliminating overfetching and the hidden dependencies that make GraphQL codebases…
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CSS @property: Typed, Animatable Custom Properties thumbnail
developmentJun 22, 2026· 3 min
CSS @property: Typed, Animatable Custom Properties
Unregistered CSS custom properties can't animate — they just snap. @property fixes that by giving the browser a type, a default, and an inheritance rule…
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