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The site's coastal bands and the seams between them are a small compositional grammar: a section knows only its own colour, a divider names no neighbour, and adjacency does the storytelling. MDX is the door that lets a post fall straight through it.
There's a new page at /lab/ that lists every custom component on this site — including ones I've taken back out. Here's why a personal site needs a component graveyard and what's in this one.
Why the new /projects/ page lists fewer things than I have ideas, and what each status label is actually doing.
I asked an AI to write this site in my voice and it gave me something polished and dead. So I stopped asking it to be me, and let it wear costumes instead — an experiment in reader-chosen voice.
Every post page now ships a small block of structured data describing itself. Here's what's in it, why it matters, and the one line that prevents it from blowing up the page.
Self-linking headings, footnotes via GFM, and a deliberate non-feature — external links that don't hijack your tab or wear a little arrow. Standard rehype/remark plugins, plus an opinion about respecting the reader.
Under each post there's now a small "Related writing" section with up to three other posts. It's tag-based, ranked by overlap, and renders nothing when there's no honest match — which on day one means it renders nothing at all.
A small taxonomy that earns its keep at scale. Every post can now declare an array of tags; the tag chips appear on cards and post headers; a per-tag page lists everything under each one; the tags index sizes tag names by how many posts they hold.
Why this site now has a draft state for posts, and how it stays out of production without any plumbing I'll forget to maintain.
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