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loife is the school dashboard I actually open before class. This is the UI work behind it: a swipe menu that fits a 375px phone, an add form cut from nine controls to four, and a grace period so ticking a box doesn't wipe the row.

The technical side of a FiveM profile launcher: NTFS junctions, Windows file locks, a hash that had to match a JavaScript bug, and rewriting the whole thing from Electron to Tauri to go from a 170 MB binary down to 5.

How I rebuilt a Next.js music overlay into a Bun + Hono + SvelteKit monorepo, moved Last.fm calls into the browser to scale past 200 viewers, and swapped a fixed grid editor for free positioning.

A technical comparison between the archived games-arch build and the newer games architecture.

A tour of my lawsonhart.me Astro codebase, what ships in the public template, and what stays site-only.

Notes from building my own comments service, threads, replies, likes, moderation, and the browser security work around them.

How I built a deeply themeable Last.fm now playing overlay with URL-based config, private profile support, and no server-side state.

How I personally setup development based minecraft servers for ease of use.

How I built a self-hosted song request system with auth, moderation, queue control, and Spotify token management.