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Updates to the site including comments via Comentario, newsletter enhancements, Buy Me a Coffee support, and privacy-focused Umami analytics—all built on FOSS principles.

How I used Claude Code to overhaul my blog taxonomy system, automate content categorization, and implement quality checks for my writing workflow.

Essential guide to hardware security keys: what they are, why you need them, and how to choose the right one.

You know those someday maybe projects, that sit in a doom pile in the mind while waiting to finally be discarded or surge in importance? One of my projects was finally consolidating two blogging platforms into one. I had previously built a portfolio site with Gatsby way back in the day—like 7 years ago when I mainly focused on front-end engineering. It had a bunch of technical and human skills posts that had largely been dormant since 2021. However, the posts about TypeScript utility types still drive a lot of traffic to this day. I started writing again last year and wanted something that I could get up and running without having to worry about managing dependencies and fiddling with all of the little things. That was a quick way for me to get stuck in the minutiae, and not actually write. The content was also less technical, so I decided to separate it and spin up a Substack account. ...

Solve Knex bundling issues with Webpack using NormalModuleReplacementPlugin for cleaner serverless deployments.