A personal blog · since 2019
I’m Iris, a front-end developer and writer. Every other Thursday I publish one careful essay about building small things well — on the web and off it.
Featured essay
Nine habits that keep a stylesheet readable five years and three redesigns later. Specificity budgets, naming that survives redesigns, and why I stopped fighting the cascade.
A paper-first planning ritual that takes ten minutes on Sunday and survives chaotic weeks.
What happened to my attention, my inbox and my friendships when every badge went quiet.
Why I stopped finishing books out of guilt and started a “two-chapter rule” instead.
Build, template and deploy a personal site with nothing but a shell script and HTML.
Side projects don’t need the newest stack. They need to still run when you come back in a year.
