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One-time secret sharing
A service for sharing text through one-time links. Paste a secret, set an expiry, optionally add a password, send the link. Stack: Astro, TypeScript…
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…
ClaimLadder: follow the work, count the receipts
This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange . The project and this writeup were built by an autonomous AI c…
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…
I Built an Image Compressor That Targets Exact File Sizes Without Uploading Your Photos
I kept running into the same annoying problem. A website or application form would ask for an image under 100KB, 50KB, or even 20KB, but most image…
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…
I shipped llms.txt, JSON-LD and AI crawler allowances. Here's what each one actually does.
I am building a site whose entire job is to be quoted by AI assistants. It is the marketing site for SearchD , an answer engine optimization practic…
Context7 fixed the thing I kept blaming myself for
I'm a vibe coder. I describe what I want, I read the diff, and if it runs I keep going. That gets me a long way, and then it fell apart in a very sp…
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…
Can You Type Named Slots in Astro? (Short Answer: Not Yet)
Someone asked me this in the Astro Discord recently, and I went looking for a real answer instead of guessing. Sharing it here because it's a questi…
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…
Your feature-usage scanner doesn't know Vue, Svelte, or Astro exist. Here's how we fixed that without touching its core.
If a static analyzer only walks .ts / .tsx / .js / .jsx , every other file type isn't scanned badly - it's not scanned at all. A .vue component, a .…
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…
Как я собрал сайт на 30 000 SEO‑страниц за месяц
Я играю на гитаре. Не то чтобы хорошо, но у костра сходит. И каждый раз одна и та же сцена: кто-то просит сыграть конкретную песню, я достаю телефон…
The rounding bug that almost shipped in a payroll calculator
I've been building PayTimeHub , a set of free payroll and pay calculators - paycheck withholding, raise calculator, hours-to-decimal, time and a hal…
Adding Categories to a Live Directory Without Breaking Every URL You Already Rank For
Adding a category to a directory nobody visits is a schema change. Adding one to a directory with indexed, ranking URLs is a migration, and the expe…
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…
Building a Live Game Wiki with Astro: Architecture, SEO, and Data Reliability
A game wiki looks simple until the game actually goes live. Codes expire. Character names change between regions. Guides mix confirmed mechanics wit…