[arkwright]

Thanks for the kind words! You made my day.

I didn't really do any preparation. I had recently been thinking that pretty much every website I had ever built was sadly no longer in existence, and so I wanted to start producing real, "tangible" artifacts from my work; something that might have a shelf life of more than a couple of years. I had those recent SSR adventures in mind, and wanted to write them down before they faded from memory.

I usually begin with a bulleted todo list of insights or topics I want to cover. Then I dive in, and write in a more or less stream of consciousness fashion, which causes me to think of more topics to add to that list. I comb over the article and the list iteratively, reordering stories, editing, and and adding context as I go, until the result feels right. In this case I didn't have any notes, the content was rebuilt from memory.

[forrestthewoods]

Great post! What tool(s) did you use for the drawings?

[frandroid]

The response, much further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916700

[jborichevskiy]

Curious to know this as well. The drawings, diagrams, and flow charts are an absolute delight!

[rmetzler]

I also want to compliment the mobile view. These days I almost always use the mobile safari reader view which unifies the design on websites and increased readability. This doesn’t work on your site, but it doesn’t have to, because the design is actually pretty similar and easily readable.

So thanks for this great article.