The Story Behind the Screen
Every device has a history.
Every invention has a story.
isHistory traces the ideas, people, and moments that built the technology you use every day — told as series worth reading start to finish.
isHistory tells the real stories — serialized, in-depth, and built for readers who want more than a Wikipedia summary.
Featured this month
All posts →Astro Content Collections, Two Years In
Notes from running a multi-collection Astro site in production: what worked, what broke, and what we'd do differently.
BlogThe Case for Boring CSS
Modern CSS is genuinely good now. You probably don't need a framework, and you definitely don't need the cognitive overhead.
Ongoing series
All series →Building a Modern Web Stack
A six-part series that walks through architecting, building, and shipping a production-grade web application from scratch.
Series · Part 2Designing for Density
A four-part study of how information-dense interfaces stay readable, from Bloomberg terminals to modern dashboards.
Recent writing
Archive →Astro Content Collections, Two Years In
Notes from running a multi-collection Astro site in production: what worked, what broke, and what we'd do differently.
BlogThe Case for Boring CSS
Modern CSS is genuinely good now. You probably don't need a framework, and you definitely don't need the cognitive overhead.
BlogShipping a Side Project on a Weekend
A practical playbook for taking a side project from idea to a deployed URL in 48 hours, written by someone who has done it eleven times.
Reference
The docs are part of the story.
Every component, every config option, every pitfall — written down, organized, and updated when the code changes. The reference shelf behind every series and essay on this site.
Open the docs