Journal

Notes and thoughts about developing digital assets.

Things that broke, decisions that were harder than they looked, and the occasional argument about how this environment is changing.

September 2026 · Performance

Bandwidth is a bill that never stops arriving

Video and high-resolution images have made the web heavier than it was designed to be, and hosting platforms charge for every byte that leaves the server. Four things technical direction does to keep that cost under control.

2 min read

A dark server room with rows of racks and a lit corridor

Sep 2026 · Tooling

Sep 2026

Context is the cheapest token you will buy

A language model does not know, it predicts, and it forgets everything between sessions. Give it no context and you pay by the token to go round in circles. Four habits, from the way this site is built, that keep AI-assisted development cheap and on track.

Tooling