Can I give you my card?

A digital business card you tilt in your hand. The relief took three goes to get right, and the reason the tilt did nothing at all was never in my code.

DevDesign·Aug 2026
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Dither

Five ways to throw most of an image away and keep what still reads. Plus why dithered video boils, and what I use instead.

DevDesign·Jul 2026
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A sentence on a leash

Rebuilding the trailing text from haha.services. It's a queue of points, one per letter, and the spacing rule mattered far more than I expected.

Dev·Jul 2026
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Shadowboxing

If shadows imply a light source, what happens when you move it? Testing whether the cursor can act as the light.

DevDesign·Mar 2026
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Proximity

Hover is on or off. Proximity is continuous, so elements can start reacting before the cursor gets there. Plus what it costs per frame.

Dev·May 2026
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Water Shader

A three.js water shader wired into a headless CMS. Mostly an excuse to see how far I could push a WebGL effect with Claude Code.

Dev·Jan 2026
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Heidi

Heidi

Shazam gives up on a two-hour radio mix. A menu-bar song finder for the tracks you can't place.

DevDesign·Jan 2026
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Guy Parker-Rees

Translating a picture-book illustrator's energy into a website. A real client, even if he is my dad.

Dev·Jan 2026
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Refract

A shader that listens to an AI voice and moves with it. Sound driving a brand's visual identity in real time.

On Canvases

Thoughts on the 'death of the canvas', and why the next design tool needs to hold both the canvas and the prompt.

Apr 2026
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More coming soon!