FrontendAug 2026 · 6 min read
Why TanStack Start won my stack vote
File routes, typed everything, and server functions that stay close to the components they serve. My notes while moving a portfolio onto TanStack Start.
Read postNotes from the build log
Long-form writing on frontend engineering, design systems, and the occasional hardware tangent. Built to hydrate markdown posts — content below is placeholder until the first articles land.
DesignJul 2026 · 5 min read
Designing dark-first: surfaces, edges, and a borrowed gradient
On building a dark-mode-first design system: near-black surfaces, hairline borders, and keeping a signature gradient as an accent — never a wash.
Read postHardwareJun 2026 · 4 min read
My first firmware flash: lessons from an ESP32
From a confused UART buffer to a blinking LED: what a hardware detour taught me about state, timing, and reading documentation carefully.
Read postCase studyMay 2026 · 7 min read
Shipping a markdown editor in a weekend
QuickNotes started as a complaint about bloated note apps. Here is how scope discipline kept it small, fast, and genuinely pleasant to use.
Read postFAQ
About this blog
The short version of why these pages exist and what lands here.
Mostly to think in public — essays and post-mortems force me to actually understand what I shipped. If a post saves one person the debugging session I had, it did its job.
Frontend engineering, design systems, process notes from the internship, and the occasional hardware tangent. Expect markdown-sourced articles once the reading view is live.
Yes — the layout is production-ready, but the writing is guest-starring placeholder posts. Each entry is waiting on a real markdown file and a slug-to-content mapping.