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Key signatures, relative keys, diatonic chords, and progressions all connect on a single wheel. An interactive circle of fifths that plays sound when you click.

A survey of how modern web UIs are actually built — VDOM, signals, compile-time reactivity, web components, server-driven, FRP, islands, resumability, state machines, functional UI — collected while deciding what frontend story my own programming language should aim for.

What determines whether a sequence of characters can be heard as music? A note on character-to-pitch mapping, the cognitive ceiling around 5–9 pitches, and why Japanese hiragana is unusually well-suited to sonification.

Integrating Bedrock and shipping an MCP server is the minimum bar in 2026. Everything beyond is a waiting game.

Other people's casual evaluations don't matter. What matters is whether the problem in front of you gets solved and what you wanted to make actually gets made.

A tool that generates Live2D-ready PSDs from YAML layer structure definitions. Register the result as a Clip Studio Paint template, and the layer scaffolding step disappears from every new character.

After reading the novel and watching the film, reflections on the beauty of visual storytelling and the irreplaceable power of a novel's inner voice.

Metronome, note flash cards, scale reference, and practice timer — four browser tools built to address common piano practice challenges.

Apples in curry aren't just a Japanese quirk. Three layers of science and history explain why fruit and spice meet in kitchens worldwide.

Should you spend time crafting AI tool configurations, or building things with them? A framework for deciding.

How the Maillard reaction works when food is heated, and how to use it to make your cooking better.

Why I chose Astro, Cloudflare, and Drizzle ORM — and how they fit together.

In 2026, AI tools made individuals fast again. But this window probably won't stay open for long.

Pokemon's first slow-life sandbox. A fusion of Minecraft and Animal Crossing, with the highest Metascore in series history.

On accepting what can't be done, even when you want it badly.

What should individual developers build when AI can write code?

A CLI tool for tracing the 'why' behind code. Built it in a day, and it immediately became non-ideal.