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Think out loud.
Build the half-formed thing.
Show the workbench.

This is a slow website for a fast brain. Articles I'm figuring out as I write them. Stream notes I haven't quite resolved. Things I'm making, sometimes shipping, sometimes parking. Honest WIP energy.

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Pretending an idea is finished is the fastest way to keep it half-baked forever. Showing it half-baked is how it gets better.

Recent

A handful of latest signals.

  1. Article

    Thinking out loud, in public, on a slow website

    Why this site exists. A signal flare for people who think out loud — and a small case for keeping the writing rough on purpose.

    ~1 min read #meta#manifesto#writing

  2. Idea

    README-driven design but for the next six months of your life

    If I had to write the README for the next six months of my life, what would the API look like? What would I refuse to expose?

  3. Learning

    Native CSS view-transitions are quietly amazing

    Spent a day playing with @view-transition { navigation: auto; }. Cross-document transitions in two lines of CSS. Browsers got good when I wasn't looking.

    #css#web-platform#learning

  4. Idea

    What if a bookshelf was an operating system

    Half-formed. Books as cards, shelves as workspaces, the act of moving a book is the act of switching contexts. Probably overthinking.