Sat Oct 10 2026
Every hero image on this blog follows a pattern Codex set in June. I gave the same brief to Codex, Claude, Copilot, and Google for one post and got four different answers. A tighter brief to Codex, now a skill, fixed it.
HSC major work - part 4 of 4
Thu Oct 01 2026
Lay out an HSC folio in code, where page limits and type rules are easy to check, then carry it into Canva and keep designing there.
HSC major work - part 3 of 4
Mon Sep 28 2026
An AI agent that marks an exported HSC Textiles folio against NESA's published criteria, and how to use it as a loop: export, mark, fix, and mark again.
HSC major work - part 2 of 4
Sun Sep 27 2026
Let the agent mark, and do the making yourself. How an example HSC folio uses AI for feedback against NESA's criteria without it touching the work.
HSC major work - part 1 of 4
Fri Sep 25 2026
A fictional HSC Textiles folio built like software, so a student gets marker-style feedback every time a page changes instead of once, after it is handed in.
The keyboard conundrum - part 2 of 2
Sun Sep 20 2026
Replacing a worn-out Logitech Ergo K860 with something that survives daily use, works on locked-down client laptops, and keeps its own settings. Harder than it sounds.
The keyboard conundrum - part 1 of 2
Sun Sep 13 2026
From the built-in keyboards of the C64 and Amiga 500 to the Microsoft Natural one. Why did finding a sensible ergonomic keyboard get harder to buy?
Sat Sep 12 2026
A small follow-up to the 0.4.0 release: the sample app mascot and launcher icon now render from themed vector layers, and the toolchain moves to the latest Kotlin and Compose BOM.
Wed Sep 09 2026
astro-reactflow 0.5.0 fixes diagrams that rendered as an empty box. The integration now injects the stylesheets itself, and there is a public styles.css export for when you want to do it by hand.
Mon Sep 07 2026
Aardink 0.4.0 is the biggest release yet: richer built-in language services for Kotlin, JSON, XML, HTML and TOML, a fuller LSP-style contract with code actions, rename and signature help, new editor UI to show it all, and a new module that connects the editor to a real external language server.
Wed Aug 05 2026
A diagram component shipped with a zero-height canvas and nobody noticed for months, despite hundreds of green tests. What tests are actually for, where coverage stops helping, and why staying on old dependencies is no longer a safe default.
Mon Jun 22 2026
A deep dive into @sjohansson/astro-theme-toggle - an SSR-friendly Astro theme system with light, dark, high-contrast, and color-vision modes, no flash of the wrong theme, and theming driven by either inline variables or data attributes.
Mon Jun 15 2026
A hands-on guide to @sjohansson/astro-reactflow - drop-in React Flow diagrams for Astro 6+, rendered as client islands, with focus mode, minimap, automatic theming, and PNG/SVG export. Includes live, draggable examples.
Sun Jun 07 2026
A tour of the Astro Components collection - a small set of self-contained npm packages that add diagrams, theming, and version notes to Astro 6+ sites, each usable as a plain component or a one-line integration.
Mon Dec 08 2025
demonstrating static and interactive diagrams using React Flow
Sat Oct 10 2026
Every hero image on this blog follows a pattern Codex set in June. I gave the same brief to Codex, Claude, Copilot, and Google for one post and got four different answers. A tighter brief to Codex, now a skill, fixed it.
HSC major work - part 4 of 4
Thu Oct 01 2026
Lay out an HSC folio in code, where page limits and type rules are easy to check, then carry it into Canva and keep designing there.
HSC major work - part 3 of 4
Mon Sep 28 2026
An AI agent that marks an exported HSC Textiles folio against NESA's published criteria, and how to use it as a loop: export, mark, fix, and mark again.
HSC major work - part 2 of 4
Sun Sep 27 2026
Let the agent mark, and do the making yourself. How an example HSC folio uses AI for feedback against NESA's criteria without it touching the work.
HSC major work - part 1 of 4
Fri Sep 25 2026
A fictional HSC Textiles folio built like software, so a student gets marker-style feedback every time a page changes instead of once, after it is handed in.
The keyboard conundrum - part 2 of 2
Sun Sep 20 2026
Replacing a worn-out Logitech Ergo K860 with something that survives daily use, works on locked-down client laptops, and keeps its own settings. Harder than it sounds.
The keyboard conundrum - part 1 of 2
Sun Sep 13 2026
From the built-in keyboards of the C64 and Amiga 500 to the Microsoft Natural one. Why did finding a sensible ergonomic keyboard get harder to buy?
Sat Sep 12 2026
A small follow-up to the 0.4.0 release: the sample app mascot and launcher icon now render from themed vector layers, and the toolchain moves to the latest Kotlin and Compose BOM.
Wed Sep 09 2026
astro-reactflow 0.5.0 fixes diagrams that rendered as an empty box. The integration now injects the stylesheets itself, and there is a public styles.css export for when you want to do it by hand.
Mon Sep 07 2026
Aardink 0.4.0 is the biggest release yet: richer built-in language services for Kotlin, JSON, XML, HTML and TOML, a fuller LSP-style contract with code actions, rename and signature help, new editor UI to show it all, and a new module that connects the editor to a real external language server.
Wed Aug 05 2026
A diagram component shipped with a zero-height canvas and nobody noticed for months, despite hundreds of green tests. What tests are actually for, where coverage stops helping, and why staying on old dependencies is no longer a safe default.
Mon Jun 22 2026
A deep dive into @sjohansson/astro-theme-toggle - an SSR-friendly Astro theme system with light, dark, high-contrast, and color-vision modes, no flash of the wrong theme, and theming driven by either inline variables or data attributes.
Mon Jun 15 2026
A hands-on guide to @sjohansson/astro-reactflow - drop-in React Flow diagrams for Astro 6+, rendered as client islands, with focus mode, minimap, automatic theming, and PNG/SVG export. Includes live, draggable examples.
Sun Jun 07 2026
A tour of the Astro Components collection - a small set of self-contained npm packages that add diagrams, theming, and version notes to Astro 6+ sites, each usable as a plain component or a one-line integration.
Mon Dec 08 2025
demonstrating static and interactive diagrams using React Flow
