Eight ways to open an article, and the one that keeps winning

A typed hero system with eight arrangements, and what eighteen real choices revealed about which composition actually survives contact with a screenshot.

The design doc was wrong about its own colours

A colophon that reads its own tokens instead of describing them — because the prose version had been describing a palette the code abandoned.

I wired Figma to the code. Then we left Figma.

Code is the source of truth and the canvas is a synced view. Figma Connect proved it. Then the canvas stopped being worth the maintenance.

Fifteen prompts, five criteria: what a typed registry actually changed

I couldn't run this on the registry I built at work. So I rebuilt the pattern on a component set I still have, ran 90 generations, and scored them.

One Wrapper Class Instead of Twelve Prose Modifiers

Swapped Tailwind Typography for shadcn/typeset across every long-form surface — twelve prose modifiers on four routes became one wrapper class.

Turning a passive article into an interactive reader

A design-engineering upgrade that adds text-to-speech, sentence highlights, progress, speed control, and reactions to long reads.

A closed world agents can't hallucinate out of

The typed registry that stopped our coding agents inventing components — and the parallel package I killed in order to ship it.

From Dead Hamburger to Floating Dock

Progressive portfolio enhancements building in real time