https://steo.io/journal/ Notes on building, design and the web. en-ca Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://steo.io/journal/a-blue-palette-that-does-not-turn-purple/ https://steo.io/journal/a-blue-palette-that-does-not-turn-purple/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash Why blue drifts violet in glows and gradients, how OKLCH hue angles fix it, and a working token set with a method to test it on real screens. https://steo.io/journal/a-one-page-spec-for-a-first-release/ https://steo.io/journal/a-one-page-spec-for-a-first-release/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Founders Saliem Talash A one-page spec for a first release: user, goal, must/should/won't scope, 'done when' criteria, constraints and rollback, plus a script that checks it. https://steo.io/journal/a-performance-budget-for-a-site-with-webgl/ https://steo.io/journal/a-performance-budget-for-a-site-with-webgl/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash What to cap on a WebGL site: pixel ratio, particles, textures, shaders and frame time, with device tiers, on-demand rendering and how to measure. https://steo.io/journal/a-plans-page-that-explains-itself/ https://steo.io/journal/a-plans-page-that-explains-itself/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Founders Saliem Talash Structure a plans page: audience-led plan names, limits that say what happens at the edge, an accessible comparison table, plus clear free and cancel text. https://steo.io/journal/a-site-launch-checklist-for-a-static-site/ https://steo.io/journal/a-site-launch-checklist-for-a-static-site/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash A launch audit for a static site in two passes: a script over the built folder, then curl checks on the live host for redirects, status codes and caching. https://steo.io/journal/a-work-page-that-explains-itself-in-ten-seconds/ https://steo.io/journal/a-work-page-that-explains-itself-in-ten-seconds/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash How to structure each project entry on a portfolio or work page: what it is, who it is for, one honest line of proof, plus ordering, imagery and links. https://steo.io/journal/accessibility-of-canvas-and-webgl-content/ https://steo.io/journal/accessibility-of-canvas-and-webgl-content/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash Canvas and WebGL output is a bitmap. How to name it, describe it, hide it when decorative, and make a viewer keyboard-operable, with browser results. https://steo.io/journal/ai-generated-content-and-search-what-google-says/ https://steo.io/journal/ai-generated-content-and-search-what-google-says/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Saliem Talash A close reading of Google's AI content guidance, its scaled content abuse policy and helpful-content questions, with dates and what they leave unsaid. https://steo.io/journal/canonical-urls-redirects-and-the-www-question/ https://steo.io/journal/canonical-urls-redirects-and-the-www-question/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash Choose one address per page: rel=canonical, 301 versus 308, apex versus www, trailing slashes and HTTPS, with curl checks and a duplicate-URL table. https://steo.io/journal/core-web-vitals-in-plain-language/ https://steo.io/journal/core-web-vitals-in-plain-language/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash LCP, INP and CLS explained with the published good thresholds, what actually moves each one, lab versus field data, and a diagnosis table. https://steo.io/journal/dark-interfaces-that-stay-readable/ https://steo.io/journal/dark-interfaces-that-stay-readable/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash Contrast math for dark UI: WCAG 4.5:1 and 3:1 in practice, a worked table of text levels, and why pure black grounds are worth avoiding. https://steo.io/journal/easing-is-a-personality/ https://steo.io/journal/easing-is-a-personality/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash What cubic-bezier curves do, why entrances use ease-out and exits ease-in, and a table of durations and curves for a design system. https://steo.io/journal/font-loading-without-layout-shift/ https://steo.io/journal/font-loading-without-layout-shift/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash Why web fonts move text, how font-display, preload, subsetting and metric-matched fallbacks fix it, and a before-and-after method to prove it. https://steo.io/journal/frames-brackets-and-borders-in-interface-design/ https://steo.io/journal/frames-brackets-and-borders-in-interface-design/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash How hairline frames, corner brackets and inset chrome create place and focus on a page, with CSS patterns and the performance and accessibility costs. https://steo.io/journal/how-a-page-transition-works-without-a-framework/ https://steo.io/journal/how-a-page-transition-works-without-a-framework/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash Build soft page transitions with fetch, DOMParser and history.pushState: scroll restoration, focus, announcements, caching, Back and Forward, fallbacks. https://steo.io/journal/how-dns-works-for-someone-who-just-bought-a-domain/ https://steo.io/journal/how-dns-works-for-someone-who-just-bought-a-domain/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash Registrar, registry, DNS host and web host explained, plus record types, TTL, why an apex CNAME fails, what propagation is, and dig with real output. https://steo.io/journal/how-to-review-ai-written-copy-before-it-goes-public/ https://steo.io/journal/how-to-review-ai-written-copy-before-it-goes-public/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Saliem Talash A seven-step review for AI-drafted articles and pages: a claim ledger, a script that tests quotes against sources, metadata checks and a recorded sign-off. https://steo.io/journal/hreflang-for-a-bilingual-canadian-site/ https://steo.io/journal/hreflang-for-a-bilingual-canadian-site/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash Which codes to use for English and French in Canada, how reciprocal pairs, x-default and real language links work, and how to handle partial translation. https://steo.io/journal/images-in-2026-avif-webp-srcset/ https://steo.io/journal/images-in-2026-avif-webp-srcset/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash Pick image formats, write srcset and sizes correctly, reserve space, set loading and fetchpriority, and know when a video is the wrong answer. https://steo.io/journal/internal-linking-that-passes-context/ https://steo.io/journal/internal-linking-that-passes-context/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash Write internal links that tell readers and Google what the next page is about: anchor text, context, real anchors, and a script that finds orphan pages. https://steo.io/journal/keeping-names-handles-and-profiles-consistent/ https://steo.io/journal/keeping-names-handles-and-profiles-consistent/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash Decide once which name goes where: site name, display name, handle and legal name, how Google reads them, and how to audit and change them without drift. https://steo.io/journal/naming-a-product-a-method/ https://steo.io/journal/naming-a-product-a-method/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Founders Saliem Talash A staged method for naming a product: write the brief, generate widely, run cheap checks first, then domain and Canadian trademark searches. https://steo.io/journal/pairing-a-display-serif-with-a-geometric-sans/ https://steo.io/journal/pairing-a-display-serif-with-a-geometric-sans/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash How to pair a display serif with a geometric sans: roles, x-height matching, optical size, tracking and line-height, and italic as emphasis. https://steo.io/journal/particle-systems-in-the-browser-a-first-tour/ https://steo.io/journal/particle-systems-in-the-browser-a-first-tour/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash How a WebGL particle field works: Points, per-vertex attributes, morph targets, GPU versus CPU updates, additive blending and a runnable three.js example. https://steo.io/journal/pointing-a-domain-at-a-new-host-without-downtime/ https://steo.io/journal/pointing-a-domain-at-a-new-host-without-downtime/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash A cutover plan: lower the TTL, stage and test on the new host, line up the certificate, switch records, keep www working, check CAA and DNSSEC, roll back. https://steo.io/journal/prefers-reduced-motion-done-properly/ https://steo.io/journal/prefers-reduced-motion-done-properly/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash What to remove and keep when a visitor asks for less motion: the media query, matchMedia, canvases, video, pause controls, WCAG and a test routine. https://steo.io/journal/preview-deployments-and-rollbacks/ https://steo.io/journal/preview-deployments-and-rollbacks/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash How preview URLs, staged production builds, promotion and instant rollback work on Vercel, what each proves or restores, and the trap after a rollback. https://steo.io/journal/release-notes-people-read/ https://steo.io/journal/release-notes-people-read/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Founders Saliem Talash Turn a commit log into release notes users read: Keep a Changelog structure, what version numbers promise under SemVer, wording rules and a checker script. https://steo.io/journal/shipping-every-week-as-a-team-of-one/ https://steo.io/journal/shipping-every-week-as-a-team-of-one/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Founders Saliem Talash A weekly release routine for a solo builder: slice work small, keep main deployable, hold the date and quality, flex scope, and measure with a script. https://steo.io/journal/sitemaps-robots-txt-and-search-console-for-a-new-site/ https://steo.io/journal/sitemaps-robots-txt-and-search-console-for-a-new-site/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash What a sitemap, robots.txt and noindex each do and do not do, how to verify ownership, read the indexing reports, and run a day-one sequence. https://steo.io/journal/smooth-scrolling-without-the-regret/ https://steo.io/journal/smooth-scrolling-without-the-regret/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Craft Saliem Talash What smooth-scroll libraries change, what to test in find-in-page, keyboard, anchors and focus, and how to scope the effect and respect reduced motion. https://steo.io/journal/static-html-first-why-server-rendered-pages-still-win/ https://steo.io/journal/static-html-first-why-server-rendered-pages-still-win/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Build Saliem Talash What a crawler and a slow phone actually receive from static, server-rendered and client-rendered pages, and how to check your own site with curl. https://steo.io/journal/structured-data-for-a-person-and-a-small-company/ https://steo.io/journal/structured-data-for-a-person-and-a-small-company/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash JSON-LD for Person, Organization, WebSite and Article with @id and sameAs done properly, how to validate it, and what it does not promise. https://steo.io/journal/titles-descriptions-and-snippets/ https://steo.io/journal/titles-descriptions-and-snippets/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Web Saliem Talash What Google's documentation says about title links and snippets, why length is not a rule, why your text gets rewritten, and how to test the result. https://steo.io/journal/what-an-ai-website-builder-can-and-cannot-do/ https://steo.io/journal/what-an-ai-website-builder-can-and-cannot-do/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Saliem Talash A decision framework for AI site builders: where drafts are strong, where they invent or generalise, what a person must check, and a pre-publish list. https://steo.io/journal/writing-a-prompt-that-produces-a-better-first-draft/ https://steo.io/journal/writing-a-prompt-that-produces-a-better-first-draft/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Saliem Talash Audience, offer, facts, tone, constraints and exclusions: a prompt anatomy with a fictional before and after, and how to iterate in small diffs.