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Clinton Weekes

A paraplanner who writes,
and a writer who codes.

I run Out Sauce with my wife — paraplanning for Australian financial advisers — and I write here about the work, the craft of it, and what I notice along the way.

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Now. Most weeks: deep in client files at Out Sauce. Some evenings: chipping at the three-site rebuild. Reading: less fiction than I'd like.

Currently learning. How to write less. How to ship sites that load on first byte. How to say no to clients without it costing the relationship.

Where to find the rest. Long pieces in writing, short ones in stream, conversations in interviews, the things I'm building in projects.

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  1. from gooey

    Article

    Thinking out loud, in public, on a slow website

    Why this site exists. A signal flare for people who think out loud — and a small case for keeping the writing rough on purpose.

    ~1 min read #meta#manifesto#writing

  2. from gooey

    Idea

    README-driven design but for the next six months of your life

    If I had to write the README for the next six months of my life, what would the API look like? What would I refuse to expose?

  3. from Out Sauce

    Article

    How we structure an SOA file before we write a word

    Before any drafting starts, we set up the working file in a fixed shape. Five folders, predictable names, version-controlled. The structure is boring on purpose — surprises in process leak into surprises in advice.

    ~1 min read #from-the-kitchen#process#soa

  4. from gooey

    Learning

    Native CSS view-transitions are quietly amazing

    Spent a day playing with @view-transition { navigation: auto; }. Cross-document transitions in two lines of CSS. Browsers got good when I wasn't looking.

    #css#web-platform#learning