Getting a Hugo site running locally in 20 minutes
A pragmatic walkthrough: install Hugo, scaffold a site, write three posts, and build a static bundle you can open in any browser.
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2026-09-01
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Designing a typographic system that scales
How a small set of type and spacing tokens can hold up a whole site without ever needing a redesign.
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2026-08-20
Why I stopped using boxed shadows on cards
Restraint, proximity, and the case for letting a 1px border do the work of a 24px blur.
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2026-08-12
Scaffolding before you ship
A 20-minute primer on getting a static site from blank directory to something worth iterating on.
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2026-08-05
Hello — I'm Wei.
I build calm software for a noisy web. This site is where I collect what I'm learning, in public, at a pace I can keep up with.