Lab

Builds, teardowns of how things work, UI sketches and notes. A working notebook, not a showcase.

SKETCH2 Oct 2026One grid, one inkThe notebook had a grid on the paper, another inside every card, and a three-colour gradient on every drawing. Taking two of the three away made it calmer and faster.

• CSS
• Design tokens

TEARDOWN2 Oct 2026What happens when you open this pageOne request, followed from your browser to the edge, into a serverless function and out to Redis, with the real numbers measured while you read.

• DNS
• Vercel Edge
• Serverless functions
• Upstash Redis

BUILD27 Sept 2026· liveThis websiteA portfolio that runs like production. Live request tracing, synthetic monitoring, CI quality gates, and a photo pipeline, on a $0/month serverless stack.

• Next.js
• Vercel
• Upstash Redis
• GitHub Actions