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Why I Stopped Reaching for Redis on Solo Projects
Six Redis use cases replaced with SQLite, Postgres, and Edge KV Rate limiting fits in one SQLite table with 40 lines Postgres LISTEN handles pubsub...
The Stripe Webhook Patterns I Use to Avoid Lost Events
Signature verification on the edge blocks forged payloads before they hit my logic Idempotency keys stop duplicate order creation from Stripe retries A dead-letter table...
Form UX in 2026 Native HTML Validation Is Finally Enough
Removed a 12 KB validation library across 3 surfaces using native HTML :user-valid and :user-invalid fire only after interaction, killing premature error noise accent-color styles...
Managing Design Tokens Across 14 Projects Without a Tool
One tokens.json source feeds 14 projects with zero infrastructure A 30-line Node script outputs CSS, JS, and JSON Style Dictionary adds config overhead a solo...
Edge Functions vs Serverless for Solo Projects A Practical Comparison
Edge wins for cookie gating, redirects, AB tests at sub-20ms cold starts Serverless wins for DB queries, heavy deps, long-running jobs 6 months of Vercel...
The Liquid Patterns That Cut My Theme Build Time in Half
Schema fragments cut section files by 40 lines each Conditional snippets replaced 12 near-duplicate blocks asset_url helpers ended broken image paths for good settings inheritance...
The Claude Code Features I Started Using This Month
1M context Opus replaced my manual file-pasting ritual entirely Dynamic loop self-pacing cut wasted token spend on simple edits Scheduled remote agents now handle my...
The DuckDB Pattern When SQLite Is Not Enough but Postgres Is Overkill
DuckDB scans 10M rows in under a second on a laptop SQLite for transactions, DuckDB for analytics, no server needed Query CSV and Parquet files...
GitHub Actions Crons That Actually Stay Green
7 daily crons, 2 starvation incidents that triggered the rewrite Health checks before work, not after, catch silent failures Queue-low alarm fires at 5 items,...
Bun vs Node for Solo Developers Six Months In
Moved 4 scripts to Bun, kept 6 on Node after six months of real use Bun startup is 4x faster, which matters for scripts I...
Six Months of Shopify Web Vitals Data What Actually Moved INP
INP dropped from 380ms to 140ms over six months on raxxo.shop Splitting one heavy event handler cut 110ms by itself Lazy-loading the cart drawer JS...
Starting Style and Entry Animations in CSS Without JavaScript
@starting-style ships in every modern browser as of 2024 Five patterns: dialog, sheet, list reveal, toast, route swap Pair it with transition-behavior and @starting-style for...