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+title: Become who you are
+---
+
+The day after Rock was born, Nellie and I went to a friends graduation party (without Rock).
+
+The first of our friends to get married and have kids, we wanted to prove that we didn't have to change.
+
+Thet belief has palgued every seasonof my life since. I've believed that I could acrete life's experiences without changing.
+
+When Ruby was diagnosed with cancer, I didn't change.
+When my dad died, I didn't change.
+(planning center, podcast, etc.)
+
+I've always wanted to be "the same guy."
+
+But I'm not. I'm new every day.
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+---
+title: Not every exception is a failure
+---
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+title: Build your own Storybook in Astro, using CSF
+date: 2023-08-18
+---
+
+You don't need Storybook to write stories.
+
+When I started at Chromatic, I was using Storybook everyday to build a component library.
+Today, I mostly just build my website.
+
+No shade on Storybook but I will never install Storybook to do [component driven development] here.
+And even if I wanted to, there isn't an Astro integration.
+
+But I reach for stories all the time.
+
+What I want is stories, without the `book`.
+
+## What we're going to build
+
+Storybook is a full development environment.
+
+This is how I think of stories, as a baseline.
+
+1. CSF (Meta, named exports, object syntax, play functions)
+1. pages
+1. page fragments for linking
+1. A formatted name from the named export name
+1. interface information
+1. a nested container inside
+
+Bonus:
+
+- A default template
+- A sidebare
+
+---
+
+Questions:
+
+- How to parse an astro component file and render that using CSF?
+- How to test test components using testing-library (vitest?)
+-
+
+flowchart LR
+    id["This ❤ Unicode"]
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+title: The Visual Regression Testing Service I want
+date: 2023-08-18
+---
+
+I want a visual regression testing service designed for indie developers, not enterprise.
+
+In 2010, I started a career in what would eventually be called design systems.
+I did so at a few companies. An e-commerce company, a whitelabel wellness services provider, and a church management software. All became teams large enough to have people dedicated to choosing their own tools and building their own environment.
+
+All that time, I wanted a tool for visual regression testing UI. And in 2018, [Chromatic built it]().
+Only problem is that I had to use Storybook.
+Storybook is… fine. But it's a lot.
+
+Of course, if you're privileged enough to build UI for an enterprises, chances are your component library it's own package and you don't mind using Storybook as your development environment. I didn't.
+
+But I would never install it for a "normal project".
+
+So for the past 2 years, I've been low-key fixated on what Storybook looks like… without Storybook.
+And what the criteria are for a general purpose visual regression testing service would be.
+
+## Component Story format
+Component Story Format is the crown jewel of Storybook innovation.
+I see it as the "stories" part of Storybook and what I want everything to work on.
+
+CSF is more convention than anything else.
+
+- `default` contains a bunch of metadata about the component you're writing stories for.
+- every named export is a "story"
+- and stories are written in object syntax
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