What I learned building pipeline-aware content variants in a static Astro directory
Conclusion first : you can encode meaningful editorial differentiation into static Astro pages at build time using a single metadata field — pipeline_…
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Astro 5 content collections as an editorial layer in a programmatic site
The 18 indexed pages on Open Alternative To are structurally identical — same template, same GitHub API data sources, same Claude Haiku-generated intr…
Building An Astro Blog
This article was originally published on hawksley.dev . I've owned the domain name hawksley.dev for a while now, but I've never done much with it asid…
How I Built 65 Free Browser Tools in 2 Weeks Using AI (AstroJS + Cloudflare)
The Problem Every time I needed a quick tool online, the same loop: Search for free PDF compressor Find a promising site Hit a sign-up wall or paywall…
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…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Reciprocal hreflang in Astro, only when both languages exist
Astro 5's i18n routing handles URL generation and locale detection, but it doesn't emit <link rel="alternate" hreflang> for you. The naive fix —…
Astro + Cloudflare Pages: 3 Deploy Bugs You'll Probably Hit
I've been building a static Astro site on Cloudflare Pages over the last few weeks. Sharing the 3 deployment bugs that cost me the most time, in case …
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Astro Content Collections for Multi-Tenant Help Docs: Rendering Tenant-Specific Documentation Without CMS Sprawl
Astro Content Collections for Multi-Tenant Help Docs: Rendering Tenant-Specific Documentation Without CMS Sprawl I've watched teams burn money on Cont…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
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 …
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
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…
NVIDIA CUTLASS: High-Performance CUDA Templates for AI Linear Algebra
If you've trained a transformer in the last three years, your GPU spent most of its wall-clock time inside a matrix multiplication. The kernels doing …
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…
Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and…
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 …