Writing

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You’re not behind, you’re just at the beginning

Feeling lost in first year and wondering whether any of it is still worth learning. The long answer: fundamentals, building real things, and the skill I wish I had started on earlier.

Sep 20268 min read

(Drafts)03

Game Development

Procedural generation without the chaos

Notes on keeping generated 2D levels playable — seeding, constraint passes, and why the first version always produces unreachable rooms.

Sep 20268 min readComing soon

Web Development

What the React Compiler changed about how I write components

Six months of building without hand-written useMemo and useCallback, and the handful of places where I still had to restructure instead.

Sep 20266 min readComing soon

Design

Motion that earns its place

Every animation costs attention. A working checklist for deciding whether an interaction is doing something or just showing off.

Oct 20265 min readComing soon