diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index d18e900..56ad64a 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@ import Section from "../components/Section.astro";
 import About from "../components/About.astro";
 import SkillGroup from "../components/SkillGroup.astro";
 import ProjectCard from "../components/ProjectCard.astro";
+import PostList from "../components/PostList.astro";
 import Contact from "../components/Contact.astro";
 import { skills } from "../data/skills";
+import { getPosts } from "../lib/blog";
 import { getCollection } from "astro:content";
 
 const featuredProjects = (await getCollection("projects", (p) => p.data.featured)).sort(
   (a, b) => a.data.order - b.data.order,
 );
+const recentPosts = (await getPosts()).slice(0, 3);
 ---
 
 <Layout path="/">
@@ -36,7 +39,18 @@ const featuredProjects = (await getCollection("projects", (p) => p.data.featured
     </p>
   </Section>
 
-  <Section id="contact" eyebrow="Get in touch" index="04" title="Let's talk infrastructure.">
+  <Section id="writing" eyebrow="Writing" index="04" title="Notes from the build.">
+    <p class="writing__intro" data-reveal>
+      Lessons from edge Kubernetes, GPUs, and running infrastructure like it matters —
+      written up as I go.
+    </p>
+    <PostList posts={recentPosts} />
+    <p class="projects__more" data-reveal>
+      <a class="btn" href="/blog/">Read the blog →</a>
+    </p>
+  </Section>
+
+  <Section id="contact" eyebrow="Get in touch" index="05" title="Let's talk infrastructure.">
     <Contact />
   </Section>
 </Layout>
@@ -56,4 +70,9 @@ const featuredProjects = (await getCollection("projects", (p) => p.data.featured
     margin-top: var(--space-6);
     text-align: center;
   }
+  .writing__intro {
+    max-width: 52ch;
+    margin-bottom: var(--space-5);
+    color: var(--text-dim);
+  }
 </style>
diff --git a/src/scripts/anim.ts b/src/scripts/anim.ts
index 2aba363..666e21a 100644
--- a/src/scripts/anim.ts
+++ b/src/scripts/anim.ts
@@ -67,9 +67,15 @@ function run(): void {
   }
 
   /* 4. Top scroll-progress bar — cross-browser (replaces the Chromium-only CSS
-   *    animation-timeline). scroll() scrubs the animation by page progress. */
+   *    animation-timeline). Drive scaleX STRAIGHT from scroll progress via the
+   *    callback form: scroll(animate(...)) snapped the bar back to 0 at the very
+   *    bottom (the progress=1 boundary); the callback maps 0→1 cleanly both ways. */
   const bar = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".scroll-progress");
-  if (bar) scroll(animate(bar, { scaleX: [0, 1] }, { ease: "linear" }));
+  if (bar) {
+    scroll((progress: number) => {
+      bar.style.transform = `scaleX(${progress})`;
+    });
+  }
 
   /* 5. Nav — animated active-section underline + tactile hover. */
   initNav();
@@ -97,20 +103,29 @@ function initNav(): void {
     a.addEventListener("pointerleave", () => under(a, a === active));
   }
 
-  // Light up the link whose section is in view (homepage anchors only).
-  for (const a of links) {
-    const id = a.dataset.navId;
-    const sec = id ? document.getElementById(id) : null;
-    if (!sec) continue;
-    inView(
-      sec,
-      () => {
-        if (active && active !== a) under(active, false);
-        active = a;
-        under(a, true);
-      },
-      { amount: 0.5 },
-    );
+  // Light up the link whose section is currently being read. Driven straight off
+  // scroll position (recomputed every frame) so it tracks BOTH directions — the
+  // old per-section inView(enter) fired only on the way DOWN and went dead on the
+  // way back up. Homepage anchor links only (Projects/Blog have no section here).
+  const sectioned = links.filter(
+    (a) => a.dataset.navId && document.getElementById(a.dataset.navId),
+  );
+  if (sectioned.length) {
+    const setActive = (): void => {
+      const line = window.innerHeight * 0.4; // section crossing the upper area is "active"
+      let current: HTMLAnchorElement | null = null;
+      for (const a of sectioned) {
+        const sec = document.getElementById(a.dataset.navId as string);
+        if (sec && sec.getBoundingClientRect().top <= line) current = a;
+      }
+      if (current !== active) {
+        if (active) under(active, false);
+        active = current;
+        if (current) under(current, true);
+      }
+    };
+    scroll(setActive);
+    setActive();
   }
 }