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2026-07-24 7 min read
cld-flare-maxxing is a read-first Cloudflare control center for Claude Code and Codex. It snapshots the account, checks the state, and makes every write go through a separate break-glass path.
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2026-07-13 9 min read
Notes on rebuilding this site's homepage and blog around an editorial reference, the two rounds of picking fonts it took to get the type system right, a rebuilt Google Fonts tool, and the small cursor and navigation bugs that only show up once real people start clicking around.
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2026-07-08 5 min read
Unicorn Studio is a no-code tool for building WebGL effects, and the part I actually respect about it is not the effects library. It is the engineering choices underneath, a layer-based canvas instead of shader syntax, a 36kb bundle, and a free tier that is not a crippled trial.
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2026-07-07 6 min read
The CIDECODE 2026 results came in, and the team I rated highest on day one did not place. Here is why presentation cost them the prize, what the actual winners got right, and what the gap between confident juniors and production experience looked like up close.
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2026-06-15 5 min read
Instagram gives you one bio link. I turned that single Instagram bio link into a bento box link-in-bio page with a photo, a line about me, and clear buttons to everything I make.
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2026-06-15 6 min read
A family member paid full price for a medicine with a cheap Jan Aushadhi generic version sitting in a catalogue nobody could search. So I built a generic medicine finder to surface the alternative.
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2026-06-04 10 min read
An Astro SEO audit of abhiigatty.com surfaced 18 findings. No sitemap, no robots.txt, no structured data, no H1 on the homepage. Here is what a website SEO audit landed, what I deferred, and what surprised me.
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2026-05-12 2 min read
My browser-only todo app now has todo priority tiers plus a collapsible note per row, star and hourglass buttons to float or sink items, and a drag handle to reorder within each tier.
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2026-05-10 7 min read
I built a minimal browser todo app that runs entirely client-side. No signup, no backend, no sync. Here is why, how it works, and the four problems I hit building it.
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2026-05-10 7 min read
I built an OTP generator dressed up as a deck of playing cards. It deals each digit as a card, complete with shuffle and flip, instead of a boring six-digit form.
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2026-05-06 7 min read
I ran a Lighthouse performance audit on my site twice, twenty-five minutes apart. One score jump was real engineering, the other was noise. Here are the findings and the difference.
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2026-05-06 5 min read
How I fixed a broken www subdomain redirect on Cloudflare. The apex worked but www failed, and the fix was a small lesson in DNS, custom domains, and a Workers gotcha.
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2026-04-28 3 min read
I set up Cloudflare Workers auto deploy so a merge to main ships my site by itself. Here is how I moved from hand-running wrangler to a real deploy from GitHub pipeline.
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2026-04-28 4 min read
What semantic HTML for SEO and AI actually means in 2026, why it matters when LLMs read your pages, and the small semantic HTML gaps I found while auditing this site.
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2026-03-18 6 min read
A founder's notes on applying for government grants for startups. Finding the right ones, decoding eligibility, and handling the paperwork without burning weeks.
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2026-03-18 5 min read
DevTools CLI Suite is a compact set of developer CLI tools that streamline repetitive local development tasks like scaffolding, sanity checks, and common shortcuts.
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2026-03-18 9 min read
A 7.9 KB homepage with 0 trackers and 0 web fonts, built in 1 day. The numbers behind a fast website built with AI on Astro and Cloudflare, shipped with GitHub Copilot.
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2026-03-18 6 min read
Starting a startup with no business knowledge, just interest and no training. Here is what it was like to learn the legal and operational basics from scratch.
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2026-03-18 6 min read
Free hiring platforms often mean free entry, not free hiring. The real hiring platform costs usually surface only after the setup time is already spent.
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2026-03-18 5 min read
How I actually use AI tools for daily work. They are a drafting and clarity aid, not an autopilot. It saves real time, but the decisions and final words stay mine.
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2026-03-10 6 min read
Starting a startup as an engineering student means strong technical confidence but zero business knowledge. Here is how I learned the basics from scratch.
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