Motion with meaning
What Material Design 3 actually says about animation — springs, emphasized easing, and the discipline of doing less.
ToriStorm
Tori
Hi — I’m Tori. I write here about whatever I’m currently building: shaders, color math, tiny servers, and the occasional rabbit hole.
Latest writing
The zero-dependency backend
A complete blog server — routing, SQLite, sessions, full-text search, RSS — with an empty package.json.
A markdown renderer in four hundred lines
Parsing markdown by hand — block scanner, inline walker, and why "safe by default" is the only defensible design.
Painting with noise
The aurora behind this site — fractal noise, curl, and three colors, in one WebGL fragment shader.
Dynamic color from first principles
Rebuilding Material Design 3's dynamic color with OKLCH — one seed hue in, forty color roles out.
Hello, Prism
Why I built my blog from scratch — no framework, no dependencies, every photon accounted for.