Insights & engineering notes
Deep dives on provisioning, performance, security, and design — written by the people who ship it, with the code and the numbers included.
What actually happens between clicking “Create site” and a live HTTPS URL — the gRPC call, the container, the DNS wait, and the four places we had to stop blocking the request.
Everything we've published, newest first. 5 articles
Why we write posts as TypeScript files instead of markdown or a headless CMS — and the block model that makes code snippets, figures, and callouts feel first-class.
The four front-end decisions that move LCP, INP, and CLS more than any amount of micro-optimisation — with the measurements that tell you whether they worked.
A practical look at automated certificate issuance — the ACME challenge types, why renewal fails quietly, and the monitoring that catches it before your visitors do.
Answer engines changed how people find things, not what makes a page worth finding. A practical checklist for the first ninety days of a new website.
You don't need a component library to stay consistent. You need about twelve tokens, three components, and the discipline to route everything through them.
Engineering write-ups, performance notes, and what we learned running the platform. No product announcements dressed up as articles.
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