Balancing build time and image quality in a static pipeline
Mandatory cover images slowed every build. Trimming variant widths, rethinking formats, and caching won the time back — with measurements.
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Coockar — Field notes on static-site tech
Designing CDN cache headers
How to set Cache-Control for a static site: hashed assets go immutable, HTML stays short-lived with revalidation — a two-tier baseline.
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Wiring accessibility checks into CI
Automated axe-style checks catch maybe a third to half of real issues. Why they still earn a CI slot, and how to live with false positives.
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Design the 404 page first
Building the 404 early makes broken links visible during development and doubles as the smallest possible test of your design system.
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How far to take Markdown footnotes
Technical posts rarely need true footnotes. Drawing the line between what belongs in the body, what becomes a link, and what stays below.
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Pouring images and tables into a static site's post body
Our posts kept shipping with zero inline images. One note packs every case — wide, portrait, small, transparent, consecutive, in-list, two captions, two tables — to verify optimization, dimensions and dark-mode legibility.
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Faster CI builds with layered caches and lockfile discipline
Dependency installation dominated our CI time, so I rebuilt the pipeline around a lockfile-keyed cache. Before-and-after numbers included.
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Notes on designing a multilingual site
How to lay out URLs, translation links, and hreflang — running two languages with native i18n alone.
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Getting stuck on CSS cascade layers
My first misunderstanding of @layer: unlayered styles always win, and it pays to read your framework's layer declaration once.
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Starting a personal blog with Astro
Notes on choosing Astro as the static site generator and assembling a blog from a minimal setup.
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Subsetting a web font down to 23KB
Extracting only the Latin glyphs from a variable font for self-hosting — the pyftsubset invocation and three pitfalls worth checking.
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