Writing

8 posts, newest first.

2026

08-12 Notes on shipping a permission prompt Four rewrites, one dialog, and the part nobody sees. #engineering

06-30 Why tab titles lie A short investigation that ended somewhere I did not expect. #browsers

05-04 A small tool for diffing config files Eighty lines of Python I now use every day. #tools

02-18 Three years of notes in plain text What survived, and what I quietly stopped doing. #notes

2025

11-09 On not giving talks anymore #notes

07-22 The cache that outlived its feature A bug story with a tidy ending. #engineering

03-15 Reading the font stack of the web #browsers

2024

12-01 My Makefile is my README #tools