KISS web apps in the age of AI agents
My dad used Claude Code to build a simple personal web app, and it reached for Electron, React, and Zustand — absurd overkill for a weekend project. Here is the vanilla-HTML stack I hand my agents instead.
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Short, informal posts on software, graphics, and markets. No categories, no schedule.
GrobPaint
I released GrobPaint, a lightweight image editor that sits somewhere between MS Paint and Paint.NET, because I wanted a simple Paint.NET replacement on macOS and nothing quite fit.
Super Mario 64's elegant collision system
Most resources on 3D collision are either too technical or not technical enough; Super Mario 64's point-collider approach fills that gap brilliantly.
Maybe stocks aren't a great investment
The S&P 500 measured in gold tells a different story than the S&P 500 measured in dollars. The data, plotted.
Lisp Visualization Test
I prototyped an interactive version of Lisp built from visual blocks, inspired by Scratch — lists and atoms that lay themselves out and can be run in place.
Local LLM Optimism
I don't want to make costly API calls to a supercomputer; I want to run the LLM on my own machine, efficiently and smartly — and things appear to be moving that way.
Iteration Time is (arguably) the Most Important Thing
When programming, I care about iteration time a lot: the seconds between changing a line of code and seeing that change reflected in what I am building.
Everybody just wants immediate mode
Retained mode builds a tree of persistent UI objects; immediate mode redraws the UI every frame as a function of state. I think much of the framework churn is a search for the latter.