The polish nobody sees (until it’s missing)
Shipping the light revamp was the headline. The week after it was the part that actually decides whether a site feels built — and almost none of it shows up in a screenshot.
The unglamorous list
A run of small, deliberate fixes, each its own little loop: visible focus rings for keyboard users, the two-hex discipline holding on every page, the article reading column clamped to a comfortable measure, the contact page centred to match the booking page. And one that mattered more than its size — we named the testimonial. "A founder" became a real person with a real face.
Then we built the thing you're reading
The week's last build was this diary itself — MDX entries, a kit of story-blocks, a dotted timeline, and a type on every entry (milestone or note). Meta, but honest: the tool that holds these words was the final feature of the week it describes.
Functional
- It compiles and deploys
- Every page loads
- The happy path works
Finished
- Keyboard focus is visible everywhere
- Reading columns are a comfortable width
- Proof has names; motion respects reduced-motion
The curve
A site is done when it's seen passing on every device, not when it compiles. Writing that down was the point of building somewhere to write it.
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