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The scroll-scrub stack: what actually makes it smooth

A scrubbed film either reads as liquid or as a slideshow being dragged, and I finally measured where the difference lives. It is the encode. One clip, three encodes, sixty seeks each: a median of 3 ms against 15 ms against 32 ms, with the whole frame budget sitting at 16.7. Here is the loop, the encode, the dead zones, and the one line that makes iPhones cooperate.

Mobile-first, one thumb

Mobile first design, as I actually build it: finger-sized targets, Pointer Events instead of mouse events, and nothing important hidden behind a hover. Then the morning my own audit failed a component that was the right size all along, because the test drove a narrow desktop window and called it a phone.

Procedural geometry vs Blender MCP: where I drew the line

I rebuilt the procedural world demo to settle an argument with myself: draw the geometry in code, or model it in Blender now that an agent can drive Blender over MCP. Four worlds of fences, trees and desks cost 19 to 53 draw calls a frame in code. One running dog cost a 0.91 MB file and three trips back to the prompt.

28,000 listings on one map with MapLibre and no API bill

Every active listing in the state lands on one map, drawn by MapLibre GL JS on ordinary shared hosting, with nothing metering the page loads. One version-stamped GeoJSON off the sync cron feeds the pins, and a self-hosted PMTiles archive is measured and staged to answer for the basemap the free hosted style is drawing today. Measured numbers, the compliance furniture, and the version pin that a release note forced.

When an image pipeline fails silently: a disk-quota postmortem

A listing page said "48 photos" above a grid of blank tiles, and every layer underneath it, from encoder to cache to queue, had reported success. The account had hit its disk quota, the image encoder wrote nothing and said it had worked, and the cache filed the empty result as truth. Here is the whole chain, and the four changes that shipped the same morning.

Building a real estate site for a realtor in The Dalles

Grace Tarnasky messaged me on a Thursday and had a working site on Saturday. A walkthrough and a look at the decisions: why her listings are real pages instead of an IDX iframe, why six neighbourhood guides matter more than a search box, and what a fork of an engine buys you.

Scroll-scrubbed video, the cheapest premium feel on the web

I taught the studio toolchain the Apple-style scroll-scrub technique, then built eight live demos from five-second phone clips to prove it. What makes a scrubbed page feel premium, the plumbing nobody mentions, and where the technique actually earns its keep.

AI slop, and the files that keep it out of my projects

Every AI project drifts toward the same fonts, the same gradients, the same sentences. Mine do not, because every agent I run inherits a small set of law files. Here is the whole playbook, structure and all.

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