26 Jun 2026
Field notes on Mac OS 9.2, New World ROMs, and Apple Silicon
SheepShaver boots Mac OS 9 with a native JIT. Getting it on Apple Silicon? That took work. Full native 9.2? Even harder.
The blog
9 Jun 2026
CADI: a prescriptive path for slop-free AI in content work
A framework to collect, analyze, document, iterate (CADI, for short) is a prescriptive answer to the question everyone keeps asking: should I prompt better, write a style guide, build an agent, or what?
12 May 2026
A data font, from the inside out
Datatype is a variable font that turns text into tiny inline charts.
9 May 2026
Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
3 May 2026
Eye-tracking heatmaps in your browser, no lab needed
Stop guessing whether users will notice your CTA. Foveacast predicts attention from a screenshot, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
29 Apr 2026
Stop converting SVG text to outlines
Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.
20 Apr 2026
Let AI worry about the code, you worry about the work
Cultivating LLM productivity requires comfort with the vernacular of code, not the writing of it.
8 Apr 2026
How to write one skill for both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
Tips on where the shared approach doesn't share, and plugin.json gotchas that break Claude Code silently.
7 Apr 2026
The right answer has to be woven
Domain-driven design, content architecture, and AI context engineering each solved the same shared-understanding problem; LLMs are finally dissolving the boundary that kept them apart.
5 Apr 2026
Four gears of AI-assisted development: from coding to context
Developers are moving from copy-paste to orchestration. Each gear shifts what the human actually contributes.
30 Mar 2026
Why context engineering was always the job
AI knows the world in general but not your domain; the engineers who get real results were always doing the context work.
27 Mar 2026
Content architecture: the delivery problem
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
Blog art that belongs
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
Semantic search on a static site, no API keys required
Vector embeddings at build time, cosine similarity in the browser. The same 23 MB model runs both sides.
28 Feb 2026
Site search without a search service
No API keys, no external service — just a build step and one HTML attribute.