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3 May 2026

Stop guessing whether users will notice your CTA. Foveacast predicts attention from a screenshot, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.

29 Apr 2026

Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.

20 Apr 2026

Cultivating LLM productivity requires comfort with the vernacular of code, not the writing of it.

8 Apr 2026

Tips on where the shared appproach doesn't share, and plugin.json gotchas that break Claude Code silently.

7 Apr 2026

Several traditions solved the shared-understanding problem in parallel. LLMs are dissolving the boundary that kept them apart.

5 Apr 2026

Developers are moving from copy-paste to orchestration. Each gear shifts what the human actually contributes.

30 Mar 2026

AI has general knowledge of the universe, not yours. The engineers who get results were always doing context work.

27 Mar 2026

The technology works, the design looks good, but content can't get to the reader — because nobody agreed on what a card is.

3 Mar 2026

Every post needs a hero image. Sometimes you don't need the perfect one — you just need something that doesn't clash.

2 Mar 2026

Vector embeddings at build time, cosine similarity in the browser. The same 23 MB model runs both sides.

28 Feb 2026

No API keys, no external service — just a build step and one HTML attribute.

25 Feb 2026

Pin comments on any live webpage and share them as a URL with no account and zero cost. As in free.

20 Feb 2026

A Cloudflare Worker is just a CGI script, and that's exactly what a static site needs.

16 Feb 2026

Late-90s desktop paradigms may suit single-purpose browser tools better than modern minimal UI.

16 Feb 2026

Eight optimization passes, zero uploads — reduce PDF file size entirely in your browser.