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This morning I made a performance-focused change to One to Better. The site was taking up to ~5 seconds to load, mostly due to fetching content from Notion on every request. I switched the site to static site generation, which means all posts are now built once at deploy time instead of on every page view.
Read more →I spent some time today polishing up One to Better. Nothing flashy, just small upgrades that make reading, discovering, and navigating the site a little smoother. The kind of changes you don’t always notice right away, but you feel from a UX perspective.
Read more →It’s strange how liberating and overwhelming it is to be able to build almost any software idea that pops into my head. So I build. Constantly.
Read more →Built a small kana practice app using Replit. I’ve lived in Japan for many years, and one thing I’ve learned about myself is that I’m not particularly good at learning languages. Not naturally, anyway. I have to rely on tried and true repetition, coming back to the same thing over and over until it slowly sticks. Kana Study came out of that reality.
Read more →"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement."
— James Clear
Welcome to One to Better. A few years ago, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. One idea in particular stuck with me: the notion that if you aim to be just 1% better each day, the results compound over time, quietly, almost invisibly, until you look back and realize all the little things you created added up to more than you expected. That idea clicked with me immediately.
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