Pretext measures and lays out text without touching the DOM. I saw it in a fifteen second reel and could not stop thinking about it, despite writing PHP for a living.
26 August 2026 · 4 min read
A career history told as ID cards on an elastic lanyard. Nobody needed this, which is exactly why it was worth building.
2 July 2026 · 4 min read
My portfolio has a second mode: a windowed desktop with a terminal, an API client and a lock screen. The reasoning was simple. Developers do not read portfolios, they poke at them.
9 May 2026 · 4 min read
StatWP tracks every plugin on WordPress.org daily, over seventy thousand of them. The interesting problems were not the charts, they were the four times I had to stop and ask what the data actually does.
14 March 2026 · 4 min read