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Building this site
Once the six demos ran, I invited their cousins onto the homepage. Nobody knew where to look. Turning lights off turned out to be the work.
With a pointer everything worked. I tabbed, and focus walked out of the panel into the page behind it. Some holes only show up on a keyboard.
The crossfade ran. A ghost of the old page still slipped in front of the new one. The frame was small enough that I almost shipped it.
The pages had not changed in weeks. I refreshed my own blog and watched two seconds of blank, sometimes three. Language had been stored in the wrong place.
The pieces live in files. I want last Tuesday’s line, and the day it changed, without asking a dashboard to remember for me.
The button was already on the page. I clicked. No spinner, no refusal. A form can look ready before it is alive.
My own homepage made me wait on a phone. I blamed the particles. Measurement pointed somewhere quieter.
The suite kept growing. What actually caught me were contracts and edges. I stopped trusting a pile of HTML nobody wanted to read.
Notes from use
I leave the window. I hit stop. I distrust a spinner that will not admit it is stuck. Waiting on a model has made me picky about those few seconds.
Halfway through a change, the page still opened. The errors that bother me are the ones that look legal while two states that should never meet are already sharing a room.
I set the filters, hit refresh, and watched them vanish. After that I became fussy about what belongs in the address bar.
I kept picking colors for this site as if the right hex would settle both day and night. The hard part was what sat on top of what.