Why I Still Test In Safari First (And The Bugs It Catches Early)
I test new frontend work in Safari first. It hurts early, but it saves me from bugs Chrome happily hides until production.
My writings
Dispatches from a life spent online.
View Transitions API: Useful, But Only For This One Thing (So Far)
After one real project with the View Transitions API, I stopped believing the conference demos. It is not magic, but it is surprisingly good for one very specific use case.
The Most Productive 15 Minutes Of My Day: Folding Laundry At Night
My most useful daily habit is not an app, a supplement, or a new framework. It is folding laundry at night, on purpose, every single day.
Coaching Positions: How I Read 12-Year-Olds Before They Know Themselves
Try-out season is where 12-year-olds tell you who they are without using words. You just need to know where to look and how to listen.
The Schema.org Markup Every Client Site Should Ship With
The structured data I ship on almost every client project fits on a single page. This is the JSON-LD I actually deploy, not theory.
Shooting With Restraint: iPhone, Lightroom, And A Component Mindset
Photography got way better for me when I dropped the gear chase and treated images like components in a system: shot on an iPhone, finished in Lightroom, used on the web.
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
The Git hygiene workflow keeping ideebv-2026 lean
How I keep the ideebv-2026 repo lean using git filter-repo, strict ignores, and backup pruning. Real commands, no theory.
Six Months With SecondsPro: The Kettlebell Timer That Finally Stuck
I used Ladder for kettlebell training and still skipped workouts. SecondsPro fixed that. This is what Ladder got wrong and why this ugly little timer app actually stuck.
Why I Still Hand‑Code Every Hover State
I still hand-code every hover state instead of trusting component libraries. Not because I like pain, but because that tiny interaction layer decides how the site actually feels.
Running Family Logistics Like a Sprint Board in a WhatsApp Group
My partner and I run family logistics like a sprint, but our board lives in WhatsApp. No fancy app, no Notion setup. Just one group called “Fam” with a few simple rules.
The Tower Workflow That Keeps My Mac Studio And MacBook Air Perfectly In Sync
How I keep a Mac Studio and a MacBook Air in sync using Tower, Git and a few strict rules, so I can jump between desk and couch without merge hell.