Why Cloudflare Acquired Astro And What It Tells You About Where the Web Is Going
Cloudflare is a network infrastructure company. They run DNS, DDoS protection, and CDN services for millions of websites. They are not, historically, …
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Bypass WordPress Database: How to Fetch Static JSON with Zero-Config CORS
So, you decided to build a headless WordPress site with a modern frontend framework like Next.js or Astro. It sounds like a great developer experience…
How I Built a UK-Focused Converter Site with Astro 5, React 19, and Tailwind 4 — Zero JS by Default, 100% Private
I got tired of searching "gas mark 4 to celsius" and landing on ad-heavy US sites that had never heard of a British oven. So I built the site I wanted…
I REBUILT MY SITE WITH ASTRO & SANITY
A couple of years ago, when I was deciding which platform to use for web development projects, I was very keen on the idea of using Webflow. It felt l…
I built a site with 150+ browser-only dev tools (Astro + Vue 3 + TypeScript) — here's how it's put together
What this is Torinoa Tools is a side project I've been building solo: 152 developer utilities — Base64 conversion, JSON formatting, a regex tester, su…
I Built a Developer Tools Website Without a Backend — Here’s Why
How I built CodeKitHub with Astro, static architecture, and SEO-first thinking — without a backend. Most modern web projects usually start with: A dat…
I Contain Multitudes (and Also Three Git Repos)
My blog is older than most of the tools I use to run it. The oldest posts started life on LiveJournal sometime in the early 2000s, got dragged through…
Why I’m Thinking of Switching My Portfolio to Astro.js ..
Why I'm Thinking of Switching My Portfolio to Astro.js Lately I have been spending most of my time building auditing dashboards. Working on data-highl…
I Generated 7,681 Static Pages From 78 Units of Data — Here's the Architecture
Most unit converter websites are React SPAs with a single page. Google indexes one URL and calls it a day. I wanted to see what happens when you treat…
Parsing markdown tables in 20 lines (because remark was overkill)
On Hacé Cuentas (hacecuentas.com) I render 1,200+ pages of user-facing explanation text from JSON content. Every page has at least one markdown table …
Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare
Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare I run a small Astro blog on Cloudflare Pages. It mixes developer write-ups with perso…
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
The interesting parts of a project are not always the AI model or the hosting platform. This week I spent time reading source code for five dependenci…
Astro Islands Architecture: When to Use Partial Hydration
Astro Islands Architecture: When to Use Partial Hydration I've shipped enough full SPAs to know their dirty secret: they're overly expensive for most …
Zero-JS Wasn't Enough: Edge Caching SSR HTML on Cloudflare Workers
The previous article ended with a confession: same build, two PageSpeed runs two hours apart, desktop Performance 99 and then 90. I blamed first-scree…
React Server Components vs. Astro Islands: When to Use Each Pattern
React Server Components vs. Astro Islands: When to Use Each Pattern I've shipped production code with both React Server Components (RSC) and Astro Isl…
Static site search for Astro in 2026: why I picked Pagefind over Algolia and Lunr
I added search to all three of my AI-curated directory sites last month. The choice wasn't obvious — there are at least four options with real adoptio…
How I built pairwise AI model compare pages with Claude Haiku and a budget cap
When I added compare pages to the Top AI Tools directory , the first question I had to answer was: how many pairs am I actually looking at? With rough…
How I built 1,200+ calculator pages in Astro without writing 1,200 templates
I run Hacé Cuentas , a free collection of 4,100+ Spanish-language calculators. What started as 10 hand-built pages turned into thousands of routes — a…
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
The interesting parts of a project are not always the AI model or the hosting platform. This week I spent time reading source code for five dependenci…
Building a Decentralized Content Pipeline with Nostr & Astro
I recently deployed my fully decentralized content pipeline to kheai.com (you can check out the source code at github.com/kafechew/nostr-seo ). After …
Why Block Handed Goose to the Linux Foundation: Agentic AI Goes Open
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, transferred its open-source agentic AI framework Goose to the Linux Foundation. The move follows a fami…
Docker Desktop Alternatives: OrbStack vs Colima vs Rancher Desktop
Docker Desktop changed its licensing in August 2021, and the ripple effects are still spreading. Large organizations — roughly anyone above 250 employ…
Why I Rebuilt My Portfolio with Astro
Originally published on subhanfarrakh.com/blog The Problem with SPAs for Content Sites Most portfolio sites don't need React to render a headline. Yet…
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
The interesting parts of a project are not always the AI model or the hosting platform. This week I spent time reading source code for five dependenci…
Astro and Islands Architecture: Why Your Portfolio Doesn't Need React for Everything
Most portfolio sites are over-engineered. You reach for React because you know React, wire up a router, bundle 300 KB of JavaScript, and ship it to a …
Supabase Edge Functions Review: Deno on the Edge for Postgres Backends
I deployed my first Supabase Edge Function in January 2026 — a webhook handler that received Stripe payment events, validated them against the Supabas…
I Built a Globally Distributed Blog Platform for ~$1/Month
I wanted a developer blog that felt more like an engineered platform than a traditional personal site. Not just a static template with articles slappe…
Temporal Cloud Serverless: Durable Execution Without the Ops Overhead
If you've evaluated Temporal before and decided the ops surface was too heavy, the picture has shifted. At Replay 2026, Temporal announced Serverless …
Static site search for Astro in 2026: why I picked Pagefind over Algolia and Lunr
I added search to all three of my AI-curated directory sites last month. The choice wasn't obvious — there are at least four options with real adoptio…
How I built pairwise AI model compare pages with Claude Haiku and a budget cap
When I added compare pages to the Top AI Tools directory , the first question I had to answer was: how many pairs am I actually looking at? With rough…