Knowing Bootstrap Is Not the Same as Knowing CSS
What Bootstrap 6 made me think about learning frameworks, understanding the platform, and choosing the right abstractions.
Oct 18, 202626 min read
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You Don't Need a New Component Library for a New Look
A neo-brutalist experiment with Actual CSS, and why I increasingly prefer separating design from component architecture.
Oct 17, 202613 min read
Stop installing Tabler Icons: build a sprite instead
Every time I ask a coding agent to add an icon to a project, the same thing happens: it runs npm install @tabler/icons-webfont. It is the obvious move. It is also a bad one. This blog entry serves as
Oct 9, 20265 min read
Your Browser Already Has a Component Library
Recently I was reading the documentation of yet another UI library, and I couldn't help thinking that something went wrong somewhere. This isn't really about one particular library. Ark UI made me thi
Sep 26, 202610 min read
The Agent Should Not Have to Remember
A few days ago, I wrote about how my agentic development workflow mostly emerged from actual problems rather than from a carefully designed set of principles. Since then, some of those ideas have beco
Sep 25, 202614 min read
Good Agentic Workflows Are Born From Pain, Not Principles
Over the past few weeks, I have been experimenting with a more agentic way of building software projects. I started with a project template that Sol helped me generate. It seemed to cover all the typi
Sep 19, 202613 min read
The wobbling tooltip problem
A while ago I wrote a small article about modern tooltips. The idea was simple: use modern browser features such as the Popover API, keep the implementation small, and avoid pulling in a large positio
Sep 11, 20265 min read
A git diff with all changed and new unstaged files
I recently needed to collect all changes in one file for reporting purposes. Found this article: https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-diff-with-new-files In case you need something similar on Windows, here
Jul 27, 20263 min read
Writing a Zero-Dependency CSV and XLSX Reader/Writer
Some projects start with a grand plan. Others start because you just need to read a file without thinking too much about it. That was the case for spread-compat. I needed a common interface for CSV, X
Mar 6, 20266 min read