Thoughts on code,
craft & exploration.

CSS finally has real, reusable functions. The new @function at-rule lets you define typed helpers that run in the browser with live values — here is how it works and where it is supported today.

The mechanics behind connecting a budgeting app to your bank account, why screen scraping is dying, and where the US open banking rules stand in 2026.

Most people give up on Obsidian mobile because the defaults don't match how they actually capture notes. The fix isn't plugins — it's ten minutes in the Mobile settings.

Chrome ships the Soft Navigations API unflagged in 151, giving single-page apps a standardized way to measure LCP, INP, and CLS per route change instead of only on the first load.

Tax-loss harvesting turns a losing position into a deduction, but the mechanics are fussier than the pitch suggests. Here's how the netting order, the wash sale rule, and the cost-basis catch actually work.

Your vault is just a folder of Markdown, which makes syncing it feel like a solved problem. It isn't. Here's how Obsidian Sync, Git, and iCloud actually behave once mobile and plugins enter the picture.

Shadow DOM used to mean a blank page until your bundle loaded. The shadowrootmode attribute changed that, and it has been in every major browser since early 2024.

The Origin Private File System gives you byte-level, synchronous file I/O in the browser. Here's how it works, when to reach for it, and why it's the reason SQLite runs well on the web now.

There is no order book behind a decentralized exchange swap. There is a formula. Here is the math that sets the price, and why liquidity providers can lose money while doing everything right.