A log of what I'm building, planning, and thinking about. Short and timestamped.https://victorclisby.com/en-AUhttps://victorclisby.com/notes/css-has-finally-landed/https://victorclisby.com/notes/css-has-finally-landed/Spent the morning ripping out a JS-driven 'parent has invalid child' pattern and replacing it with `form:has(:invalid)`. Three components got simpler.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/stripe-webhooks-signatures-not-ips/https://victorclisby.com/notes/stripe-webhooks-signatures-not-ips/An IP allow-list felt safer until the on-call woke up at 3am because Stripe rotated a range. Signature verification is the answer.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/pnpm-to-bun/https://victorclisby.com/notes/pnpm-to-bun/Install times are a step change. Tooling is rough at the edges but for greenfield prototypes the speed wins.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/ddia-replication/https://victorclisby.com/notes/ddia-replication/Leader-based replication is everywhere I look once you know what it is. The Postgres logical replication chapter clicked after this.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/conditional-types-distributive/https://victorclisby.com/notes/conditional-types-distributive/Finally internalised distributive conditional types. `T extends U ? X : Y` over a union maps element-wise. Wrote a tiny helper to make it stick.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/rust-ownership/https://victorclisby.com/notes/rust-ownership/The trick was stopping translating from JS. Borrowing isn't a workaround for GC — it's a different shape of program. Drew it out on paper.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/healthcare-forms/https://victorclisby.com/notes/healthcare-forms/Half the complexity is conditional logic; the other half is what people *don't* type. Empty states carry diagnostic meaning. Designed accordingly.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/vim-motions-vs-code/https://victorclisby.com/notes/vim-motions-vs-code/Three weeks of being slower. Then suddenly faster. The mental cost of context-switching to the mouse adds up more than I realised.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/footy-in-json/https://victorclisby.com/notes/footy-in-json/Modelling a footy match as a typed event stream over a Saturday afternoon. Useless. Delightful. Recommended.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://victorclisby.com/notes/local-first-electric-sql/https://victorclisby.com/notes/local-first-electric-sql/The mental model — your database is the network — takes a beat. Then it's hard to go back. Replaying a flaky train commute felt like magic.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT