Notes
Short pieces, written when something was worth writing down.
Measuring line length once and forgetting about it
A comfortable measure for body text sits somewhere between 60 and 75 characters. Instead of
revisiting that decision on every project, I set a max-width in ch units once and
leave it alone. It survives font changes, and it stops the usual drift toward edge-to-edge text
on wide screens.
The case for a single static page instead of a CMS
Every CMS I have installed eventually needed updates, plugins, backups and a database that woke me up at night. A folder of HTML files needs none of that. The trade-off is real — you cannot hand editing to someone who does not want to see markup — but for a site with a few dozen pages it is the better deal.
Why I still keep a plain text changelog
Commit messages describe what changed; a changelog describes why it mattered. A single
CHANGELOG.md in the repository root, written for the person who will read it in six
months, has saved me more time than any issue tracker.