Writing

Notes on craft, systems, and design

Long-form thinking on editorial product design, Tailwind systems, and the quiet rigor of building things slowly.

FeaturedEngineering

How I deployed this blog for under $10 a month

A no-frills production stack for a personal site: Next.js + Payload in a Docker image on Cloud Run, Postgres and media on Supabase, and Cloudflare absorbing the read traffic so the origin barely wakes up.

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Systems

Whitespace, the quiet hierarchy

Why aggressive whitespace reads as confidence — and the small cluster of rules that keep it from reading as emptiness.