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Building a contentEditable from scratch

2 min readMar 12, 2026

How I replaced a native textarea with a contentEditable div to support inline ghost text, custom caret positioning, and autocomplete overlays without fighting the browser.

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Why I switched to Base UI

2 min readFeb 24, 2026

Radix served me well for years, but the render prop composition model in Base UI finally gave me the control I wanted over styling and behavior without wrapper component bloat.

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Streaming HTML parsing with Web Streams API

2 min readFeb 8, 2026

Piping a fetch() response directly into htmlparser2 using WritableStream — what I learned contributing the WebWritableStream adapter upstream.

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My open source contribution workflow

2 min readJan 19, 2026

The system I use to find meaningful issues, understand unfamiliar codebases quickly, and write PRs that actually get merged — without burning out.

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