Blog
Notes on engineering, design, and the long tail of running a one-person company.
Building a chronograph for the year you were born
A 干支 calculator that takes a Gregorian year and walks back to the Chinese sexagenary cycle — the first step toward the chrono-sim demo I keep promising myself.
Why I kept three sites in one repo
Monorepo, override pattern, and the very small number of decisions that make a family of sites feel like one company without forking the design system.
Glassmorphism is just a backdrop-filter
Why I dropped glass from the base surface of this site and kept it only for the things that float.
Cheese SEO, the on-page thing nobody wants to talk about
Notes on a $29.9 tool I built because I got tired of paying agencies $2k/month to do the same five things to a page.
Pettivalpets.com — 2 months from launch to Google #7 on a real long-tail
The exact keyword, the exact page, and the four things I did to a WooCommerce store that a $2k/month agency would have charged me three months of retainers to do.
How I turned a real store into a sellable Chinese SEO tutorial (without breaking the store)
The five modules, the data-anonymization rules, and the reason the tutorial lives in Notion and ships through Stripe instead of being a PDF.
How I read research papers without losing the day
Three rules I keep breaking, and the one rule I am trying to learn. Mostly the same as the way I read anything else.
The five quiet wins of May
No launches, no revenue records. Just five small things that moved the right direction. A log entry dressed as a post.