Learnings

A bylaw search assistant should find the right clauses without making the rules up as it goes. Building one taught me that retrieval quality, citation quality, and consistency all need their own tests.

Free invitation services trade convenience for control over guest data. I built a translated, personalized, scroll-animated evite on my own site and documented where its protections stop.

A layered landscape can make a long page feel alive, but tying several large images to scroll introduces its own design and debugging constraints. I built one with transparent image layers, CSS view timelines, and a few safeguards that keep the content in charge.

My hero section looked finished and felt frozen. A smoke loop at 40% opacity brought it to life, but only after I stopped laying it over its own picture.

Hero images make your blog look polished, but where can you source free photos from? Here is everything that I learned about free stock photos.

There are so many frameworks for starting a site. I went on a journey to find the right framework to build a home for Sea Otter Studios. Here are the reasons why I ended up choosing Astro.