Notes

Thinking out loud.

Product decisions, engineering trade-offs, and the reasoning behind how things get built.

The Journey of Rice

Rice has two independent origins, thousands of years apart. This is how we turned that research into a scrollytelling essay, and the decisions behind the data model.

6 April 2026·2 min read

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The Language of Gestures

Gesture meanings shift across cultures, sometimes in opposite directions. This is how we built an interactive essay to map them, and why the map still looks like blobs.

6 April 2026·2 min read

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Building Oriire: What It Took

Oriire exists because there wasn't a clean way to organise this kind of material. This note is about the third rebuild, and what we had to change to make it work.

6 April 2026·6 min read

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