Plutonic Rainbows

GTMetrix Optimisations

June 27, 2025

I’ve implemented a series of performance enhancements based on my GTMetrix analysis to significantly improve the blog’s loading speed, particularly for users in China. The most impactful changes addressed the critical request chain latency — previously measured at 796ms — and reduced JavaScript execution time. This was accomplished by introducing resource preloading, applying defer attributes to non-critical scripts, and refining the requestIdleCallback logic with appropriate timeouts. Additionally, I improved the font loading strategy by switching from font-display: optional to font-display: swap, which helps ensure that text remains visible during font downloads. This is especially important in regions where Google Fonts tend to load slowly.

To further boost rendering efficiency, I implemented content-visibility: auto with intrinsic size hints for key elements such as images (800x600px), post content (1000px), and post items (500px). This allows the browser to skip rendering off-screen content, improving scrolling performance. I also adopted a non-blocking CSS loading technique for Lightbox styles, where styles initially load using media="print" and switch to media="all" after loading, thereby avoiding render-blocking. These combined optimizations reduce First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and Total Blocking Time (TBT), delivering a noticeably faster, smoother, and more responsive experience for users.

Power

June 23, 2025

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s album Power unfolds as a sculptural sound environment where voice, modular synth, and ambient recordings merge into a single, living organism. Lowe’s voice slides effortlessly between breath, chant, overtone, and electronic shimmer, interweaving with analog drones to build a ritual-like ambience. At its core is the space 'in between the notes' — a deliberate embrace of silence and nuance that allows the listener to become part of the unfolding sonic ritual .

This is not music to simply listen to, but music to inhabit. Layers of modular tones form an architectural soundscape, Lowe’s vocal harmonics act as both anchor and wandering specter, and field recordings introduce the presence of a broader world in motion. The album recalls the patiently nuanced, melancholic logic of his earlier work (like Kulthan), yet Power deepens that legacy into an immersive act of transformation. It’s an atmosphere you enter lightly but leave fundamentally changed — an experience of sound as living energy, at once intimate, uncanny, and profoundly ritualistic.

Available on Boomkat.

Supabase Prompt Rules Management

June 21, 2025

The new Supabase integration transforms prompt management from a manual, error-prone process into an automated, centralized system that ensures consistency across all AI interactions. By storing the master prompt_rules.xml file in a Supabase storage bucket, I can update the AI behavioral rules once through the web dashboard and have those changes automatically propagate to all local prompt templates through an intelligent synchronization system.

This eliminates the need to manually edit multiple prompt files, reduces the risk of inconsistent AI behavior, and provides a single source of truth for all AI interaction guidelines. The system leverages Supabase's robust storage infrastructure with proper authentication and access controls, while the smart sync mechanism only downloads and applies changes when rules have actually been modified, optimizing both performance and API usage.