Themed blog cards with parallax backgrounds
Giving each project its own visual identity on the blog index, with dark island cards, ink-splatter watercolour, and a scroll effect that shouldn't work but does
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Thoughts on building, learning, and refactoring.
Giving blog posts a project identity
A new database column, a dropdown, and the groundwork for themed blog cards
Opening the vault: building the display layer for Mayu's Architecture Vault
Static seed data, in-panel markdown rendering, and the decision to keep everything inside the vault scene
The vault atmosphere: canvas, RAF loops, and ambient visual effects
Why canvas was the right tool, how the four effects work, and what the code is actually doing
Breaking a 700-line component into a 190-line orchestrator
How the vault went from a monolith to a properly separated set of concerns, and what that separation actually means in practice
How the vault layout actually works: coordinate spaces, breakpoints, and the scroll-hack
Three completely different layouts at three viewport ranges, and why the breakpoint numbers are what they are
The vault's cat affirmation system: hooks, per-instance state, and the stale snapshot trap
How two independent cats got two independent speech bubbles, and why storing a hook in React state is a trap
Deploying the cron scheduler and closing the automation loop
A Cloudflare Worker, Discord notifications, and a manual trigger test
The vault's cinematic entrance: building a page transition state machine
Four phases, two directions, one rule: navigation always happens in the dark
Building a blog drip-feed system with Cloudflare Workers and Supabase
Replacing a manual publish button with an automated queue