Notes
Engineering, design, and craft decisions behind tadreej.org.
The log
Craft notes
Three patterns from three mosques — Shah Jahan, Ibn Tulun, Córdoba — rendered as SVG tessellations. How we built them from first principles, why two are now pre-computed, and what the geometry teaches about computation.
Nastaliq is one of the most typographically complex scripts in active use. Serving it on the web — without breaking performance for English readers — required treating Urdu typography as a first-class design system, not a fallback.
The first mobile PageSpeed run came in at 55. Largest Contentful Paint sat at 8.3 seconds. This is how we got to 90 — what we found, what we changed, and what we left on the table.