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Type-safe server actions without the ceremony
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Type-safe server actions without the ceremony

Blogen’s mutations are Server Actions, not a second API. A small db helper, generated Database types, and a mapper back to the shapes the UI already expected.

The case for a slower kitchen
Food

The case for a slower kitchen

Weeknight cooking does not have to feel like a deploy. A quieter kitchen, a radio, and a single test: would I still make this if nobody else was coming over?

A weekend in the hills above the city
Travel

A weekend in the hills above the city

A short ridge walk above town: gravel, a radio tower, and the useful shock of seeing the city as a map instead of a commute. Fruit on the way down, cash only.

Why small cities still have the best bookstores
Culture

Why small cities still have the best bookstores

Inventory is easy to scale. Taste is not. A short case for the desk-staffed bookshop that remembers what you bounced off last winter and still takes the risk of putting something in your hands.

A week without notifications
Productivity

A week without notifications

Seven days with badges off. The surprising part was not deep focus — it was how many “urgent” messages were just someone else’s timeline leaking onto the lock screen.

Designing a reading-first homepage
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Designing a reading-first homepage

How Blogen’s homepage is laid out for scanning: one featured story, a latest grid, a longer list, and categories that stay out of the way of the writing.

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Type-safe server actions without the ceremony

Blogen’s mutations are Server Actions, not a second API. A small db helper, generated Database types, and a mapper back to the shapes the UI already expected.

Aug 18, 2026
Food

The case for a slower kitchen

Weeknight cooking does not have to feel like a deploy. A quieter kitchen, a radio, and a single test: would I still make this if nobody else was coming over?

Aug 17, 2026
Travel

A weekend in the hills above the city

A short ridge walk above town: gravel, a radio tower, and the useful shock of seeing the city as a map instead of a commute. Fruit on the way down, cash only.

Aug 16, 2026
Culture

Why small cities still have the best bookstores

Inventory is easy to scale. Taste is not. A short case for the desk-staffed bookshop that remembers what you bounced off last winter and still takes the risk of putting something in your hands.

Aug 15, 2026
Productivity

A week without notifications

Seven days with badges off. The surprising part was not deep focus — it was how many “urgent” messages were just someone else’s timeline leaking onto the lock screen.

Aug 14, 2026
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