Why I rebuilt oriz.in from scratch
Thirteen orphan repos, one rejected AdSense application, and a decision to consolidate everything onto a single Astro 6 deploy on Cloudflare.
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Tech 7 min Tech 8 min Building a personal dev tools site on the Cloudflare free tier
Real free-tier limits, the no-card-on-file rule, and why Cloudflare beats Vercel Hobby for an AdSense-monetized indie site.
Tech 9 min Astro 6 Content Collections: a practical guide
Migrating from the legacy collections API to the Content Layer, modeling 1,864 book summary pages with one Zod schema, and why Astro.glob is gone.
Tech 8 min Tailwind v4 migration notes
What broke when I moved oriz.in from Tailwind 3.4 to 4.3: CSS-first @theme, the border-color regression, and what I threw out from my old config.
Tech 8 min pnpm 10 monorepo setup guide (and why I'm not on v11)
Why pnpm 10.34 is the right pin in 2026, the tarball integrity hard-fail, and workspace patterns for a one-app project that might grow.
Tech 8 min Cloudflare Workers Static Assets vs Pages in 2026
Pages was frozen in April 2025. Workers Static Assets is the path forward. The migration recipe, wrangler.toml details, and what 'static' actually means now.
Tech 9 min Lighthouse 95 mobile: the actual checklist
What I did to keep oriz.in at Lighthouse 95+ mobile with AdSense scripts, fonts, and React 19 islands all loaded. Real numbers, real tactics.
tech 15 Building a JAMstack Website with Astro 6 in 2026
Learn to build fast, modern JAMstack websites with Astro 6 in 2026. Complete guide covering setup, islands architecture, content collections, and deployment.
tech 14 Cloudflare Pages: Complete Deployment Guide for Static Sites in 2026
A comprehensive guide to deploying static websites on Cloudflare Pages covering hybrid static architecture, build optimization, custom domains, and zero-cost...
tech 14 Firebase Auth on Static Sites: No Backend Needed
Add authentication to static websites with Firebase Auth. Complete guide covering Google Sign-In, email/password, session management, and security rules.
tech 14 GitHub Actions for Automated Web Scraping: Complete Guide
Learn to build automated web scraping pipelines with GitHub Actions. Schedule scrapers, store data, handle errors, and deploy production scraping workflows.
Tech 8 min shadcn/ui without a framework: just Astro islands
Using shadcn/ui copy-paste components in Astro 6 with React 19 islands. Why I rejected Park UI, DaisyUI, and Mantine, and how I picked 15 components instead of 50.
tech 12 Static JSON APIs: Free API Hosting with GitHub in 2026
A comprehensive guide to building, hosting, and monetizing free public JSON APIs using GitHub repositories covering data management, versioning, rate limits,...