Journal
Writing & notes.
Occasional posts on frontend performance, design, and the small details of building for the web.
Jul 20269 minEditor, Not Typist
I rebuilt six years of work in a single weekend—not because AI made me faster, but because it changed where I spent my time. The biggest shift wasn't writing less code. It was realizing that code was never where the value lived.
AIEngineeringDesignNext.js
Jul 202610 minInternationalization Is 10% Translation
We thought launching France and Germany meant translating our UI. It turned out translation was the easiest part. Here's everything that actually broke—and the checklist I wish we'd had before shipping.
Frontendi18nNext.jsEngineering
Jul 20269 minPrompting Is a Design Skill
Making AI art on weekends taught me something unexpected: the same skill behind great prompts also writes better product specs, design briefs, Jira tickets, and pull requests. Prompting isn't an AI skill. It's communication.
AIDesignEngineeringCommunication