I build software and let my passion shine through the work.

Notes from a weekend spent pulling shiki out of the runtime, folding MDX compilation into the build, and learning — again — that the best optimization is the one you stop doing. Here is everything that broke and everything I would keep.

The first attempt at moving compilation out of the request path — and the three things it got wrong that I only saw once real traffic hit it in production. A post-mortem on premature cleverness.

Patients live in the long tail. Every home is a little different, every body is a little different, and the protocol only gets you so far. The same patterns I see walking into living rooms show up in my codebase, too.

I spent years chasing the new thing. These days I reach for whatever I already understand at 2am when something is on fire. Boring is a feature, and here is how I learned to value it.

On the loop between dissatisfaction and craft — when the loop is healthy and sharpening the work, versus when it is just an elaborate way to avoid shipping. A field guide to telling the two apart.