Falon Bahal
Using code to say something,
not just solve something.
I make things at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology.
Currently running TUKU Group, an independent creative house for founder-led businesses. Craft over noise.
PMP-certified. Vanilla JS advocate. Building tools for human-AI collaboration.
Less isn't deprivation. It's clarity.
When you remove what's unnecessary, what remains has room to matter.
Don't use what you can't explain.
In tools, in commitments, in beliefs. If you don't understand it, it owns you.
There's a point where more becomes noise.
The skill is recognizing that point before you've passed it.
The basics aren't boring.
They're what everyone skips and then circles back to. Start there. Stay there longer than feels productive.
Choose things that will still work in ten years.
Relationships, practices, objects, ideas. Trends are a distraction from what lasts.
The default path is paved with other people's decisions.
Going vanilla means choosing on purpose, even when it's slower.
Why be chocolate pistachio praline caramel swirl when you can be vanilla?
These notes are an exploration of that question. Not minimalism as aesthetic, but as philosophy. The idea that vanilla isn't plain or boring or the absence of flavor. It's a flavor itself. One with depth, complexity, and quiet confidence.
Vanilla is the choice to not add more. To trust that enough is enough. To find the extraordinary in the fundamental.
This site is what it appears to be. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, no build tools, no dependencies.
Just code that does exactly what it says.