hank.bond

After failing multiple times to create a light color theme that was not distracting, I attempted to create one that was entirely grayscale.

Here’s a code sample from a project I am working on.

So after reducing the Flash of Unstyled Text caused by the text re-rendering when the custom fonts load, I was still getting some flashing on the “heros” (the post banners with the abstract space images).

Since I use a lot of unique fonts on my site (I love bitmap fonts!)

When I am stuck during the design phase, I can’t clearly translate one design into its implementation.

Models are loosely a compression of all the easily accessible human knowledge (obviously this depends on their training corpus and parameter size etc.)

This one is a bit of a ramble but I have some loose questions bouncing around rn.

Creative vs Assertive This is not really a hot take, but I was just thinking about how in The Before Times we already had different developer setups when we did work.

Unlike when I am prototyping a solution using tools, concepts, and frameworks that I already understand, when I am trying to work in an area where I cannot be a reliable judge, I tend to iterate much more carefully.

I was thinking about how to properly communicate the value of Software Engineering as a discipline, in the era of rapid LLM code generation Me as an individual, basically “why should you hire me specifically?”

The last year has been pretty wild for the software industy.

Was talking with Chat about whether or not we were maximally using HTML tags that are more semantic in nature in this site’s templates and processing.

To create great agents/skills: start very small and very simple with broad language telling it what you want (not how to do it), use it as-is, pay attention as it runs, add corrections for where it went wrong back into the prompt, repeat over and over and…

For local agentic workflows, CLI tools composed with unix pipes are leaner on tokens, faster to iterate, and more expressive than MCP.