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Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Astro 5 vs Next.js for Marketing Sites: I Migrated 3 Projects

Next.js dev server cold start hit 14 seconds on a static portfolio, that was the breaking point. Bundle dropped from 187 KB to 9 KB...

Development
RAXXO Studios 7 min

Resend vs Postmark: 30 Days With Each For Transactional Email

Resend with React Email shipped in 18 minutes, Postmark took 41 minutes plus DMARC tweaks Resend hit 99.7% Gmail placement on 4,212 sends, Postmark hit...

Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

The 8 Drizzle ORM Patterns I Use in Every Shopify Backend

Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects. Type-safe joins with the relations API and partial selects shaved 380ms...

Claude Code
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Claude Code 2.1.118 Adds Vim Mode, /theme, And Hook MCP

Vim visual mode lands in Claude Code 2.1.118 with v and V selection, plus full operator support over highlighted ranges. /usage replaces /cost and /stats...

Development
RAXXO Studios 10 min

The 7 Postgres Indexes That Took My API From 400ms to 40ms

I took one of my APIs from 400ms p95 to 40ms p95 by fixing 7 missing or wrong Postgres indexes. Most of my slow queries...

Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Hono: The Tiny Framework That Runs My Entire Backend

Hono ships under 14KB and runs the same code on Bun, Node, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Edge Cold starts dropped from 380ms on Express...

Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Bun 1.2 Replaced Node in Every New RAXXO Project

Why Bun 1.2 became the default runtime for 17 RAXXO projects: 3s installs, 9 fewer devDependencies, tests 8x faster. When I still reach for Node.

Claude Code
RAXXO Studios 8 min

The 9 Claude Code Hooks That Audit Every File I Write

How 9 shell-script hooks replace code review in a solo studio: what each one catches, how to write your first in under 20 lines, and...

Development
RAXXO Studios 10 min

MCP Servers Are How Claude Actually Talks to Everything

MCP servers expose tools, resources, and prompts to Claude through a tiny JSON-RPC protocol. Five MCP servers I run daily: GitHub, a scoped Filesystem, Playwright,...

Dev Tools
RAXXO Studios 10 min

The 1M Context Window Actually Changes How I Code

Loaded my entire 12-repo studio into one session and stopped re-explaining context to the model every hour Ran a seven-hour debug across Shopify, Vercel, and...

Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

The 5 Vercel Cron Jobs That Keep My Studio Running

Five Vercel cron jobs replaced a 6 EUR VPS, a flaky GitHub Actions workflow, and 40 minutes of manual maintenance per week. Concrete vercel.json +...

Business
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Why I Replaced Notion With 40 Markdown Files

After five years of paying for Notion, I moved my entire studio to 40 markdown files in git. Why the move, how I ported 600...