The Foundcraft journal
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Notes, field reports and the occasional strong opinion.
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Scheduled: Autumn Roundup
Everything worth keeping from the past three months.
More writing
Ideas, field notes and useful detail-
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Measuring What Users Feel
Core Web Vitals are a proxy. The stopwatch is the truth.
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03
Rebuilding a Ten-Year-Old Site
What survives a decade, and what quietly rots.
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04
Alpine Instead of a Framework
Sprinkles of behaviour, no build step, no hydration.
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05
The Cost of a Dependency
Every package you add is a promise someone else has to keep.
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06
Why We Still Write SQL by Hand
An ORM hides the query. Sooner or later you need to see it.
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Notes on Simplicity
Simple is not the same as easy, and it is rarely the first draft.
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08
A Weekend with a Side Project
Two days, one idea, and the discipline to stop when it worked.