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Notes from
the build.
Write-ups on design, front-end and shipping small products: what worked, what didn't, and the code.

Rendering a black hole in a fragment shader
How the hero of this site bends every pixel's light path around the hole in real time, and what it took to keep it smooth on a laptop.
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One object, one light: the Haldane identity
How a single lit shape became a logo, an art direction and a photo guide.

Rolling link hovers that screen readers still read
The small script behind the odometer labels, and the one attribute that keeps them accessible.

Three numbers are enough
Why Fathomless counts visits, pages and sources, and nothing personal at all.

Focus sessions that iOS enforces itself
Building Quietly on the Screen Time API, with no account and no data collection.

One design system for marketing and product
Notes from Northline Pay: shared components without slowing either team down.

A starter kit without page builders
What Stencilkit leaves out, and why tokens and a dozen components are enough.

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