I appreciate the thoroughness of your response! In my journey to writing this article I definitely stumbled on your blog (so cool to "bump" into the author on HN).

I'll update the article with a production build. I originally planned to do it, but then copped out (partially because I wasn't sure how to, so thanks for the pointers).

I agree with your final statment, but have begun to wonder whether there's a simple enough way to accomplish the same goals, while being performant by default. We'll see where I land after further explorations.