Stuff
Tools I use, things I like. Click anything to expand — the opinion first, then the actual config if you want to steal it.
Designing
Coding
AI / Agents
Shipping
Home Lab
Data & Analytics
The Reef
Utility Apps
Tool Toybox
Desk & Carry
The Garden
Sites I Keep Coming Back To
Parker Henderson— parkerhendo.com — the warmth-and-minimalism vibe that became the inspiration for this site.
Oxide Computer— Hardware company with a website that feels like a manifesto. Their design bar is stupid high.
iamrob.in— Digital garden done right. Felt like finding someone thinking out loud the way I wanted to.
Scott Lawson — Cross-Cutting Concerns— Essay on monorepo patterns. One of those reads that makes you rethink something.
Alin Panaitiu — How good is Claude, really?— Independent Claude eval that's more useful than any official benchmark.
Mechanical Obsession
507 Mechanical Movements— Classic catalog of animated mechanisms. Old, weird, wonderful.
2100 Animated Mechanical Mechanisms — DT Online— Even bigger catalog. Hours disappear here.
Sand Atlas— Geology of sand types, colors, compositions. Yes, really.
Magnified Sand— A hobbyist's guide to microscopic sand photography. The internet is a beautiful place.
Typography & Color
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces— Academic work on typeface legibility. For the font nerds.
Ordered Dithering for Irregular Palettes— Technical writeup on dithering algorithms that got me down a pixel-art rabbit hole.
The Book on the Shelf
The Creative Act — Rick Rubin— The epigraph on my blog is a (struck-through) Rick Rubin line. That about sums it up.