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…
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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…
How I built an interactive JSON visualizer in the browser (no react-flow)
Every time I debugged a deeply nested API response, I scrolled. I counted brackets. I lost my place. After the third or fourth time of doing this for …
SvelteKit vs Astro 4: The Performance Battle performance in Real-World
In a head-to-head benchmark across 12 real-world scenarios, Astro 4 served 47% more requests per second than SvelteKit 2 on identical hardware — but S…
Building a standalone CMS admin with Hono and vanilla CSS glassmorphism
For a while the Orbiter admin lived inside the Astro integration. It was convenient — one package, one deploy, no extra process to manage. It was also…
Astro vs Next.js: Which Framework Should You Use in 2026?
Originally published at cosmicjs.com Choosing between Astro and Next.js in 2026? Both are excellent frameworks, but they solve different problems. Thi…
How I rebuilt Astro slug pages after AdSense flagged three sites for scaled content abuse
Three weeks ago I described how AdSense rejected my three directory sites because they were deployed on *.vercel.app subdomains . The fix was straight…
Say It With Flowers: BouqAIs with the Tussie-Mussie Generator
The Tussie-Mussie Generator is a web app for anyone who wants to send a meaningful floral e-card with an AI-generated "tussie mussie", a type of small…
The og:type Bug Three of My Astro Sites Quietly Shipped
I run four Astro sites. Three of them shipped the same SEO bug for months. Every blog post on those sites told Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn that it…
Astro 4 and React Server Components: The Unexpected benchmark for Security
Astro 4 & React Server Components: The Unexpected Security Benchmark Modern web development frameworks are constantly evolving to balance performa…
Optimize benchmark in Next.js 15 vs Astro 4: What You Need to Know
Next.js 15 vs Astro 4: Benchmark Optimization Guide Choosing between Next.js 15 and Astro 4 for performance-critical projects requires a deep dive int…
Why I'm betting static SSG beats dynamic AI rendering for directory SEO
The bet is specific: three directory sites, all Astro 5 SSG, all statically generated at build time, content refreshed via a nightly GitHub Actions cr…