Henry's Room — notes on technology, design, life, and the practice of getting better.https://henry.098555.xyz/en/en-ushttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-three/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-three/Why keep changing a site that already works? A rejected redesign, motion found through experimentation, and small inconsistencies that affect trust: a room discovering its own character.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-two/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-two/Inside the implementation: static pages and dynamic services, browser-based writing, reliable publishing, notifications, data, performance, and the boundaries of private content.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-one/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henrys-room-chapter-one/A retrospective on wanting a personal blog, rebuilding it repeatedly, and learning to maintain it: the excitement, frustrations, failures, and choices that gave this room its character.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/vibe-coding-era/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/vibe-coding-era/Natural language can turn into software more easily now. Judgment, verification, and responsibility have not gone away. On the gains, costs, and changing role of the engineer.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/ios-gallery-predecessor/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/ios-gallery-predecessor/From an iOS-inspired photo gallery on Ubuntu to Henry Media Library: features, failure points, technical choices, and open-source notices.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/ai-api-gateway/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/ai-api-gateway/A multi-model gateway experiment involving New API, Cloudflare, Nginx, Codex, Xiaomi MiMo, and the protocol gaps that made a clean finish impossible.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henry-media-library/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henry-media-library/A local-first personal media library, combining native JavaScript, IndexedDB, a single-file Python backend, and a SwiftUI client to handle photos, videos, thumbnails, and real folders.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henry-model/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/henry-model/A native macOS model orchestration tool for coordinating Codex, DeepSeek Harness, LM Studio, cloud gateways, configuration, memory, launchd, permissions, and state.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/sapphire/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/sapphire/A localization project around Shariq Charolia's Sapphire that became an engineering exercise: filling missing modules, rebuilding strings, and dealing with macOS signing, permissions, and product boundaries.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/hello-world/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/hello-world/Why I decided to pick up writing again in a culture built around fragments.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/design-principles/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/design-principles/Space, hierarchy, restraint, consistency, and focus. Good design is often quiet.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/cloudflare-pages/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/cloudflare-pages/A free, fast, and secure publishing stack: hosting, CDN, and HTTPS in one place.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/focus/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/focus/In an age of information overload, attention is the scarcest resource. A few methods that work for me.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/city-walk/https://henry.098555.xyz/en/blog/city-walk/Walking around for a whole day without a destination may be the best kind of rest.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT