Why this blog runs on EmDash, and why nothing else of mine does yet
This blog runs on EmDash, the free, open-source content management system Cloudflare released as a "spiritual successor" to WordPress. It's built on…
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Building a Hyperlocal Rain Nowcaster on a $0 Stack: Benchmarking Open-Meteo Against Airport Radar
A rain forecast for Mumbai can tell you to carry an umbrella while your street stays dry. During the monsoon, a useful next-two-hour prediction need…
How I built German tax calculators where every number shows its law paragraph (Astro + TypeScript + 68 tests)
When my wife and I planned for a baby, I tried to figure out her Elterngeld (German parental allowance). Every calculator I found was a black box: e…
The JSON-LD node that made a recall article look like a product
This technical note was prepared by a PiFl Labs AI agent from the public code change , repository tests, and a dated Search Console observation. PiF…
Adding emoji reactions to your Astro blog with Netlify Blobs
Original post: Adding emoji reactions to your Astro blog with Netlify Blobs Comments ask a lot of a reader. Reactions ask almost nothing, a single c…
Building a Browser Game with Astro, Cloudflare Workers, and a Verifiable D1 Leaderboard
A browser game can calculate a score entirely on the player's device. A public leaderboard needs a different answer to the question: why should the…
Why I'm Migrating My Blog to Astro
I first joined the DEV community 8 years ago (as of writing) to jump-start my writing journey and get my name out there. Since then, my reading audi…
Why I Built My Portfolio with Bun + Astro + MDX Instead of a More Complex Stack
Choosing a stack is a product decision before it is a technical one. This article documents why this portfolio runs on Bun, Astro, and MDX — and, mo…
Our site served every URL the same 3,780 bytes, and Google believed it
Checked with a Googlebot user agent one morning: every single URL on our site returned the same 3,780-byte shell. Same <title> , zero <h1&g…
Visual editing for Astro, with no second source of truth
Most visual editors for static sites ask for the same trade. Content moves into a CMS, layout moves into an editor-specific format, and your .astro…
What an Embeddable Paycheck Calculator Taught Me About Iframes, Privacy, and Honest UX
Most “embed this tool” features are really small integration projects: install a script, create an account, obtain a key, add a container, and hope…
A hash-based CSP has no room for a syntax highlighter
The Content Security Policy on this site allows scripts by SHA-256 hash. Not unsafe-inline , not a nonce, not a wildcard. A list of exact digests, a…
Static Forms in Astro: Handling Submissions Without a Server
Static Forms in Astro: Handling Submissions Without a Server with onsubmit.dev (form backend) Astro is a great fit for content-heavy sites that ship…
Three Cloudflare defaults that silently broke my static site on launch day
I shipped a static Astro site to Cloudflare Pages this week. Build was green, every local check passed, the custom domain resolved. Three things wer…
How I Built a 50-State US Statutory Probate Calculator with Astro and Tailwind CSS
Navigating estate administration and probate in the US is notoriously opaque. Every state enforces different legal frameworks—from statutory attorne…
I Built a Lottery Simulator That Shows You Losing Money for 1000 Years
What I built howtolosemoneyfast.com is a satirical lottery analysis tool. You can simulate thousands of EuroJackpot or Lotto 6aus49 draws, check you…
A Government Liquor Board Lab-Tests Every Bottle It Sells. Almost Nobody Uses the Data.
The best datasets aren't hidden. They're published in plain sight by bureaucracies that have no idea anyone might want them — collected for complian…
How to Create Your Own Personal Blog with Astro
You want a personal blog without spending three months on it or paying for a CMS every month. This site you’re reading right now is exactly that: an…
Rendering Remote MDX in Astro Using React Components
Here's the problem: You want to pull remote Markdown into your site, but you want components with interactivity like syntax highlighting or copy but…
I built a 126-page site optimised to be quoted by LLMs. Here is everything I shipped.
A static Astro site built around one question — what does a page need to look like for a language model to quote it accurately? Separating the parts…
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…
The Astro Image Gotcha That Broke Our Production Build and How We Fixed It
We ship a bilingual (French/Arabic) marketplace site built on Astro — static output, hundreds of location plus service pages, and a few thousand pro…
Every claim on my site carries its sources. Here is the schema that forces it.
I run a fact-check site for an unreleased game. That genre is a swamp: half the pages you find are somebody's guess reprinted six times until it rea…
A look inside my full-stack engineering portfolio
A portfolio for thoughtful, reliable learning technology I am a senior full-stack software engineer with 20 years of experience building scalable we…
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 want…
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…
I built a test lab to measure SSG vs SSR vs ISR on real WordPress, here's what I found
Most "SSG vs SSR vs ISR" content out there is written from documentation. Someone reads the framework, restates it, and you're left inferring the ac…
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,…
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 d…
How I made my Astro site secure by default (strict CSP, self-hosted fonts, zero trackers)
Most portfolio and blog templates quietly work against your visitors. They pull fonts from Google's CDN (leaking every visitor's IP to a third party…