Write-ups on the things I build.https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/building-inspect/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/building-inspect/My write-ups got a quieter frame. One column, figures on stages, and notes that point at things the way a browser's inspector does. Here is how the boxes keep up with a video, and how going back lands you where you left.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:30:00 GMTinspectdesignmotionview-transitionshttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/drawing-the-revision-cloud/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/drawing-the-revision-cloud/Redline circles its newest change in a red scalloped cloud, the way changes are marked on an engineering drawing. The whole cloud is one 36 pixel SVG and a border. Here is how it tiles, how it used to draw itself in, and why it now just fades.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMTredlinecsssvgmotionhttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/dice-on-the-felt/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/dice-on-the-felt/Tenzies went from flat squares to CSS cubes to real 3D dice in three.js. The hard part was not the 3D. It was making ten red dice look like they are lying on the same green table.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTtenziesthree-jswebglmotionhttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/drawing-india-right/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/drawing-india-right/Stampbook's map came from a free tile service, and it drew India the way most world maps do. Fixing that meant throwing out every border in the tiles and drawing my own from Natural Earth.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTstampbookmapsmaplibrehttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/a-picker-that-is-always-full/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/a-picker-that-is-always-full/Fandeck swapped the browser's colour input for its own OKLCH picker. The honest way to draw OKLCH is a lopsided shape with a hole in it, and I did not want that. So every row of the square is stretched to its own edge.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTfandeckcoloroklchcanvashttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/four-plates-and-a-rock-pool/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/four-plates-and-a-rock-pool/Riso Tide is a lab on my portfolio, a rock pool going through one tide, printed in four risograph inks. It is not a filter over a picture. It is four pictures, screened and pulled one at a time, twelve times a second.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTlabscanvasrisomotionhttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/three-rules-for-a-rolling-number/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/three-rules-for-a-rolling-number/The odometer roll in my portfolio labs looks like one animation. It is really three small rules, and each one fixes a bug you only see once you look for it. Switch them off below and watch it break.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTlabsmotioncsshttps://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/opening-the-case/https://inspect.ashwin.co.in/posts/opening-the-case/MovieVault shows every film as a DVD case. Tapping one opens it in mid-air and flies it to the title page, and back does the whole thing in reverse. Here is how, and what went wrong on the way.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMTmovievaultmotionreactwaapi