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I was checking the same six tabs all day out of habit so I built one page with all of it on it, and it only took a couple of evenings.

Every process in front of my websites is a Go binary now, from the tunnel to the web server to the sites themselves, and the whole stack runs on a desktop I already owned for a few dollars a month in power.

A second pass on the Rust port of my blog, where I dropped the chromium PDF subprocess for embedded Typst. Some notes on axum, comrak, minijinja and Typst.

I rewrote this blog from Flask to Rust over an afternoon. The result is a single 3.5 MB binary that uses 14x less memory and serves 10x more requests per second.

The shared cache argument for Google Fonts died in 2020 and the privacy argument was never great. Self-hosting with @fontsource is a one line change.

I let an AI port my blog from Django to Flask and it quietly moved every post URL, which I didn't catch for about a week.

I ran webpack on every Django project I had for years but in 2026 I use Vite instead, with no wrapper package involved, and this is the whole setup I use.

Django's default SQLite settings are fine for development but will hit "database is locked" errors under any concurrency. This is the config I run in production.

Broken links are a problem for any content driven website as it ages, find them quickly and easily with Scrapy.

Creating a dark, or light, version of your website may seem like a daunting task if you think you need an entirely new color pallet. It's 2022 though and we have the widely supported invert CSS filter.

Turning your website into a PWA, especially if your website doesn't rely on an internet connection at all, can greatly improve its user experience by allowing them to access your web app anywhere.

Going through all the steps to use CodeMirror with Wagtail to show formatted code on the frontend of your site.

Caddy is a great web server with sensible defaults but there a few things that I need to configure to have perfect synergy with Django.

Using Docker to run a simple production and development environments with a few extras thrown in. Easily customized to your preferred language or framework.