pretext by Cheng Lou — pure JS text layout, no DOM
thoughts.md
"My personal desire is to see end-developers being empowered to make all the layouts that makes UI more expressive"
"If you dig deep enough, 80% of CSS spec could be avoided if userland had better control over text"
"The cost of any verifiable software will trend toward 0"
What went viral
A dragon pushing text out of its way in real time. Impressive demo.
What's actually interesting
The thoughts.md file. The reasoning behind what to build. The taste, constraints, and tradeoffs the author articulated before writing a line of code.
The pattern
The thinking artifact is more durable than the code. Agents can regenerate the code. They can't regenerate the judgment that shaped it.