Journal&Notes.

How to build a route-curtain system that morphs the destination title through the wipe — and how to keep your Lighthouse score above 95 while doing it.

Reframing scroll: not a way to consume content faster, but a timeline you can choreograph. A taxonomy of scroll patterns we use at the studio in 2027.

How one well-tuned noise function — and a careful color ramp — can stand in for an entire scene. A practical tour of the math we use in production.

Why dropping density and trusting whitespace makes information-dense products feel calmer, smarter, and faster.

Notes from shipping retrieval-augmented features into production. Embeddings, chunking strategies, and a hard line on hallucinations.

On variable fonts, reading rhythm, and the case for hand-tuned type pairings instead of ‘safe’ system stacks.

Detecting Swiftshader, throttled GPUs, and battery-saver mode — and falling back to a static gradient that still feels intentional.

Why ⌘K belongs on portfolios, agency sites, and even e-commerce — and how to design one that doesn’t feel like Notion.