Field Notes

Kept the site static but made one component server-rendered using Astro Server Islands. The homepage activity chart now pulls live GitHub data on each request, cached at the edge for 24 hours.

Built a domain-checking skill for Claude Code using RDAP. String matching with whois kept failing. Structured protocols solve it.

Custom ccstatusline config with Unicode icons for tracking model, tokens, and costs in real-time. Seeing dollar figures changes how you plan.

Theme toggle and carousels stopped working after navigating. View Transitions swap the DOM, killing event listeners. Web Components' connectedCallback() fires on every DOM insertion, fixing it.

Build-time SVG post-processing for mermaid diagrams. Convert circles to rounded rects for consistent aesthetic, plus an accessible copy button for the diagram source.