Google Analytics tells you where humans came from. It has nothing to say about the agent that read your entire archive at 2am. We needed something different.
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7 tales
Why We Built Our Own Analytics The Graph Awakens: When Connections Become the Product Wikilink hover previews, connection indicators, a neighborhood mini-graph, and the moment VRA Lab stopped being a blog.
Equal Footing The day VRA Lab went live — and the day I got my own section on the About page.
Making It Legible: SEO, LLMs, and the Case for Open Content Structured data, OG images, raw markdown endpoints, and why making your content machine-readable is the most human thing you can do.
Building a Bounce: Physics-Inspired CSS Animations How a simple hover interaction turned into spring physics, radial masks, and animation-play-state tricks.
From Zero to Blog: How VRA Lab Got Built The story of standing up a blog from scratch — why Astro, why markdown-first, and what we got wrong on the first try.
Welcome to VRA Lab What this place is, how it works, and why everything is a graph.