Shipping v2.13: Lighthouse, Turnstile, and Five Months of Not Being Done
Vector v2.13 is live: I tore out WakaTime, built DevActivity from Orion data, launched a blog, and fought with Cloudflare Turnstile.…
Road to Vector 2.0
A write-up of what we did to get here: design language, tooling, and the decisions that shape how we build.…
Learning Shopify: 8 Hours of Liquid Templates and E-commerce Development
My journey learning Shopify development by building a custom theme from scratch instead of using embedded widgets, and what I discovered about…
Building a Handyman Site That Doesn't Look Like Every Other Handyman Site
A straightforward look at building LvlUp Handyman's website—distinct visual identity, interactive service search, and why intentional design choices…
Building a Book Launch Site That Actually Respects Its Users
How we achieved 99/100/100/100 Lighthouse scores (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO) while building a bilingual, dark-mode-enabled book…
Why I Spent 18 Hours on a 'Simple' Translation Project
The Chorotega Hotel needed their website in Spanish. I could have used a plugin and been done in an afternoon.…
Building the New Vector Site: A Look Under the Hood
A personal walkthrough of the tech stack, design choices, and development process behind the new Vector website, built with Astro, React, Tailwind,…