I started a studio for Ghost themes
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On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
The grid decision that rewrote my lightbox logic
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Locking aspect ratios on the Aftertype themes grid forced a rewrite of the lightbox and breakpoints, and made the gallery better at selling design.
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
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A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
ABM landing pages for maritime cybersecurity
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Using the Blackhole Networks case to show what changes when you stop treating industrial cybersecurity buyers like generic SaaS traffic and start designing ABM landing pages on purpose.
From hobby banknote app to an enterprise AI pitch
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A hobby banknote recognition app with a React Native + Expo camera pipeline grew into a serious AI intake tool and a pitch to a major currency grading company.
The layout bug that vanished when I changed the copy
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A two-column product layout broke only at 1120px wide. The fix was not new CSS, but rewriting one overstuffed feature sentence so the browser could finally wrap it.
Content breakpoints for a single hero component
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A category hero only started working once its breakpoints came from the heading, cards, and nav, not from tablet and phone widths.
Why I Prototype Motion Before Polishing Layout
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Static layouts can look perfect and still refuse to move. By prototyping motion early, spacing, hierarchy and components evolve around how the interface actually behaves.
The Hour I Lost to a Plausible AI Debugging Answer
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A confident AI diagnosis of a React Native hydration issue sent me refactoring the wrong layer for 45 minutes. The real bug was a string "null" in the API.
The frontend code I deliberately keep boring
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One feature taught me that a neat React state machine was less valuable than three plain useState hooks, and it changed how I choose boring frontend code.
When smooth animations make a fast site feel slow
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A site can be technically fast and still feel slow if your animations sit between intent and feedback. These are the ones I shortened, simplified, or removed after watching real users.
Where Cursor Stops and My Judgment Begins
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Cursor is very good at filling in the boring middle. Recent client work showed exactly where that stops, and where experience still has to say no.
