Vibes to Aesthetic: How AI Finally Unblocked My Website RedesignRedesigning a personal website can feel like an endless loop of trial and error. After several failed attempts to upgrade my site to something more modern, I finally found success by collaborating with an AI tool. Here's how I transformed my website ...Mar 16, 2025 · 5 min readblog.kaan.fyi
Unexpected uses of useLayoutEffectThe docs describe useLayoutEffect as a DOM targeted escape hatch for visual updates to the UI. Why then is a hook like this showing up in: Compatibility shims for useSyncExternalStore Reference implementation for the proposed useEvent hook addition?...Jun 21, 2022 · 3 min readblog.kaan.fyi
Stop forgetting the Eleventy Data CascadeEleventy is a great static site generator and one of the best parts of it is The Data Cascade. It's a notably simple way to map data to templates and I mean that in the best possible Simple Made Easy sense. I hope more static site generators steal it...May 2, 2021 · 2 min readblog.kaan.fyi
Making sense of Tailwind in SvelteSvelte and TailwindCSS are kinda weird together aren't they? Svelte has this awesome built in styling capability but Tailwind will have you mostly ignore it, since "no custom CSS" while using it is a virtue. The best practice for production builds is...Apr 25, 2021 · 4 min readblog.kaan.fyi
