The vault atmosphere: canvas, RAF loops, and ambient visual effects
Why canvas was the right tool, how the four effects work, and what the code is actually doing
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Thoughts on building, learning, and refactoring.
Breaking a 700-line component into a 190-line orchestrator
How the vault went from a monolith to a properly separated set of concerns, and what that separation actually means in practice
How the vault layout actually works: coordinate spaces, breakpoints, and the scroll-hack
Three completely different layouts at three viewport ranges, and why the breakpoint numbers are what they are
The vault's cat affirmation system: hooks, per-instance state, and the stale snapshot trap
How two independent cats got two independent speech bubbles, and why storing a hook in React state is a trap
Deploying the cron scheduler and closing the automation loop
A Cloudflare Worker, Discord notifications, and a manual trigger test
The vault's cinematic entrance: building a page transition state machine
Four phases, two directions, one rule: navigation always happens in the dark
Building a blog drip-feed system with Cloudflare Workers and Supabase
Replacing a manual publish button with an automated queue
Starting Something
Choosing an engine, learning C#, and setting up a toolchain for a solo JRPG
On Writing About Yourself Without Lying
Rewriting the about page, and what I learned about honesty, AI, and personal branding along the way
Building Mayu's Architecture Vault: An Interactive Library You Can Actually Click On
SVG hotspots, pure CSS glow animations, a bespoke coordinate editor, and why fill='none' will silently ruin your day