Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
Main Quest
Building and maintaining this site, and writing down what broke.
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
How to stop worrying about content tagging
It's boring and easy to neglect, but content tagging still has a purpose. How I set up and maintain tags for my content library.
Static site search, like the index in a reference book
Search that works like the index at the back of a reference book: compile in advance, and consult it yourself rather than pester a librarian.
A hard day’s light: Adding a snazzy dark mode to the site
What it takes to give a site a dark mode, how your device decides which mode you can see, and why it's more complicated than inverting a colour palette.