Pantri: Building the Household App I Actually Wanted to Use
A deep look at the stack and design decisions behind Pantri — a household PWA for shopping lists, pantry tracking, and AI-assisted meal planning.
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Postmortems, architecture decisions, and notes from the field.
The 34 Pixels You Cannot Have: WebKit's Home Indicator Zone and the iOS PWA Layout Ceiling
On every Face ID iPhone, a 34px zone at the bottom belongs to WebKit and no CSS will reach it. Here's the full investigation and what actually works.
Read post →Spec-Driven Development: Markdown as the Ground Truth for AI Agents
Moving AI agent behavior from ephemeral prompts into version-controlled Markdown specs reduces drift, enables auditability, and scales to multi-agent systems.
Read post →Zero Trust Without Friction: Rethinking How We Secure Partner Integrations
IP allow lists are the default for B2B integrations: familiar, accepted, and quietly fragile. Here's why the model is breaking down and what to do about it.
Read post →Navigating the Alphabet Soup of AWS Platform Services
AWS can feel like alphabet soup: a sea of three-letter acronyms with no map. A guided survey of core services for enterprise platforms and ETL workflows.
Read post →Intro to JAMstack
How JAMstack — React, Netlify, and Supabase — enables rapid application delivery with a clear path to enterprise-scale infrastructure.
Read post →The Three Boid Problem: Chaos, Stability, and the Ecology in Your Browser
Three species. No central controller. A digital ecosystem with the same fragility as Liu Cixin's unkind universe — running in your browser.
Read post →The Artifact Trap: When Your Design "Drifts" Into the Latent Space
I let Claude design my business cards end-to-end. The first draft was perfect. Then I tried to iterate.
Read post →Bootstrapping a Zero-Cost Engineering Journal: A Spec-Driven Approach
How I built a high-performance, automated technical blog using Astro, Decap CMS, and GitHub Actions with a $0 operational budget.
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