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• I Use AI to Write My Blog Posts

  11 Jun 2026 meta ai

  I use AI to write my blog posts. Duh. Everyone knows this already. But I want to say it clearly anyway. The ideas and experience come from me. I think about what I want to say, then I get the...

• Islands Architecture Is Just WordPress Widgets, But You Only Pay For What You Use

  10 Jun 2026 performance architecture web

  I read about islands architecture a long time ago and really appreciated it when I tried Astro for my projects. At that time Astro was very new but I totally get it. If you ever used WordPress, the idea is...

• Reducing Lambda Load with stale-while-revalidate

  09 Jun 2026 cdn caching performance aws

  I run my site (the same one I wrote about in my brick and mortar business stack posts) behind a CDN. Every page request goes through it before hitting my backend (TanStack Start on Lambda). On a content site, most...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 2

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 2

  This is part two of the stack writeup. Part one covered the technical side: frontend, UI, content API, database, auth, uploads, deployment, and tooling. This post is about the operational decisions that sit on top of that stack: how the...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 1

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 1

  I have been building a website for a brick and mortar business recently. It is not only a brochure site. It has catalog pages, offer pages, an inquiry form, staff admin panel, image upload, lead dashboard, and WhatsApp handoff. The...

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