Notes on the web — its history, its hosting tools, and the techniques for running serious applications on free static infrastructure.
Hosting and tooling
- Hosting React Apps on GitHub Pages — how to make a React project (Excalidraw, custom apps) live on GitHub Pages via Actions.
- Excalidraw as a Drawing Engine — why Excalidraw is open-source, MIT-licensed, and forkable.
- Digital Paper Note Apps — comparing OneNote, Goodnotes, Drawboard PDF, Xournal++ for the elusive “paper feel” experience.
Internet history and theory
- Why the Web Got Walled — the first-principles economic story of how the open web became a small set of walled platforms.
- Prompting LLMs for First-Principles Synthesis — how to get language models to actually think rather than produce salad-bowl essays.