https://hamzaarya.com/ Short technical writing by Hamza Arya. en https://hamzaarya.com/notes/tokens-not-restyles https://hamzaarya.com/notes/tokens-not-restyles Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Design systems / CSS One spread of this site is bone-white on black. No component knows it is being inverted, and that is the whole trick. https://hamzaarya.com/notes/cursor-never-enters-react-state https://hamzaarya.com/notes/cursor-never-enters-react-state Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Performance / Interface A custom cursor updates at pointer rate. Routing that through useState re-renders the tree sixty times a second to move one div. https://hamzaarya.com/notes/one-scroll-loop https://hamzaarya.com/notes/one-scroll-loop Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Motion / Architecture Lenis and ScrollTrigger each want to own the frame. Letting both have it is how you get a page that reads its own position one frame late.