ESSAYS · May 19, 2026

The half-built thing

The half-built thing is the most useful object in any creative pursuit. It has enough shape to react against. It tells you the parts you didn’t...

ESSAYS · May 19, 2026

The case for fewer dependencies

Most of the slowness in modern web stacks isn’t the database or the network — it’s the JavaScript bundle the build pipeline accidentally invited in. Three...