Mar 9, 2026
Designing a fast personal site
Notes on building a personal site that behaves like a document, not an app.
1 min readperformance/astro
Blog13 entries
2026
4 posts
Mar 8, 2026
Building for China with global infrastructure
What can be improved with CDN, and what still depends on the main HTML delivery path.
1 min readinfrastructure/china
Mar 7, 2026
Interface over frameworks
A placeholder article for the new blog collection and route structure.
1 min readdesign/systems
Feb 18, 2026
Notebooks over dashboards
On choosing plain notes and durable pages over complex personal dashboards.
1 min readnotes/ui/systems
2025
3 posts
Nov 2, 2025
Shipping small tools
Why small tools, released early and often, still matter more than polished internal concepts.
1 min readtools/shipping/products
Aug 14, 2025
Notes on interface density
Some notes on balancing information density and calmness in personal interfaces.
1 min readdesign/interface/density
Apr 9, 2025
Writing with static systems
Why static systems are often a better fit for writing than more dynamic publishing stacks.
1 min readwriting/astro/publishing
2024
3 posts
Dec 21, 2024
Moving from Next to Astro
On rebuilding a personal site with less runtime and more emphasis on documents.
1 min readnextjs/astro/rewrite
Jun 3, 2024
University network notes
A few notes on studying, network operations, and the shape of technical learning.
1 min readnetwork/study/systems
Feb 11, 2024
What makes a good index page
On why archive pages need editorial restraint rather than dashboard features.
1 min readindex/layout/editorial