What we have learned building AI that has to keep working.
3 articles on Frontend. — written by the people who ship and then maintain the systems.
Frontend
A Performance Budget That Survives Contact With the Design
Every team agrees the site should be fast, right up until the hero video. A budget only works if it is a number someone owns, checked automatically, and enforced before the thing ships.
17 February 2026 · 3 min read
Frontend
Accessibility Is a Requirement, Not an Audit
Treating accessibility as a check before launch guarantees the expensive version: findings that trace back to foundational decisions, arriving at the point where nobody wants to change them.
20 January 2026 · 3 min read
Frontend
Rendering a Book in a Browser Without Fighting the Browser
A reading application is the rare front-end problem where the content is longer than anything the page was designed to hold, the typography is the product, and the user notices a dropped frame immediately. Most of the usual web instincts are wrong.
23 September 2025 · 5 min read