Kaybl: One Cable Guide, Three Screens
Kaybl turns a Plex or Jellyfin library into something that feels like flipping channels. The hard part isn't the channels. It's drawing one guide that works on a TV, a phone and a desktop.
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Across the notebook
Web.
Entries sharing this tag, wherever they're filed.
Designing with Vignelli's Rules
Massimo Vignelli spent sixty years proving you need a grid, a handful of typefaces and a lot of discipline. What that looks like when the page is a browser window.
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The '90s Computer-Ad Look, Without Faking an Operating System
How this site borrows the warmth of early-'90s Apple ads (editorial type, cream paper, slate ink) and why the fake menu bars and little beige Mac didn't make the cut.
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A Recipe Card That Prints on One Page
Hitting print on a recipe blog usually gets you five pages of sidebar. Here's how the recipes on this site print just the card, and why visibility:hidden was the wrong first try.
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Backlinks and a "Short Version" Box in Eleventy, No Plugins
A summary box, an "In this note" list, labelled callouts and a "Linked from" section, all built with a handful of Eleventy filters and some honest string matching.
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The Flexbox Bug That Won't Let Your Panel Scroll: min-height: 0
Your scroll area has overflow:auto, the layout is 100vh, and the whole page scrolls anyway. Blame the automatic minimum size of flex items, and fix it with one line.
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Rebuilding This Notebook
101 old posts, three versions of a design, and one very specific idea about what a personal website should feel like.
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Picking a CMS for a Static Blog in 2026
I know WordPress inside and out, and I still didn't use it for this site. What I compared, and why I landed on Sveltia CMS.
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Your Fonts Only Look Right on Your Computer
The site looked perfect on my machine and wrong everywhere else. The sneaky reason, and how to self-host web fonts properly.
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Security Headers on a Static Site When Your Host Won't Set Them
My brand-new blog got an F on a security header scan. Here's why, what actually matters for a static site, and the fixes that work on DigitalOcean App Platform.
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