Design systems, performance, and the unglamorous middle

We didn't set out to build a design system. We were trying to stop an AI from generating the wrong shade of blue.

knip found 57% of the files I eventually deleted. The other 43% lived behind retired routes that still looked alive to the module graph.

You're already inside a View Transition: every navigation on this site is one. Here's the API behind it, the variants, and the traps, with a live lab to poke at.

A liquid effect that does not simulate water so much as it borrows the one thing water makes visible: momentum.

I wanted a two-pixel bar to glide between nav items. It took five rewrites and a lesson in how browsers actually paint a page.

I wanted the photographs to keep their detail, privacy, and 360-degree behavior without making every visitor download the archive.