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Edge Functions vs Serverless for Solo Projects A Practical Comparison
Edge wins for cookie gating, redirects, AB tests at sub-20ms cold starts
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170 entries · latest 2026-09-11
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The Liquid Patterns That Cut My Theme Build Time in Half
Schema fragments cut section files by 40 lines each
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The Claude Code Features I Started Using This Month
1M context Opus replaced my manual file-pasting ritual entirely
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The DuckDB Pattern When SQLite Is Not Enough but Postgres Is Overkill
DuckDB scans 10M rows in under a second on a laptop
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GitHub Actions Crons That Actually Stay Green
7 daily crons, 2 starvation incidents that triggered the rewrite
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Bun vs Node for Solo Developers Six Months In
Moved 4 scripts to Bun, kept 6 on Node after six months of real use
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Six Months of Shopify Web Vitals Data What Actually Moved INP
INP dropped from 380ms to 140ms over six months on raxxo.shop
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Starting Style and Entry Animations in CSS Without JavaScript
@starting-style ships in every modern browser as of 2024
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Building a Shopify Section Library Instead of Using a Theme
87 custom sections replace a pre-made theme on raxxo.shop
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Rate Limiting Without Redis: 3 Patterns I Use in Serverless
Durable counters give exact limits but cost per request
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Form Validation in 2026: 6 Native Constraints Before You Reach for a Library
Native constraints cover 6 common cases without a single byte of JS
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The Native Popover API: 4 Menus and Tooltips I Built Without JavaScript
Popover attribute gives top-layer rendering and light-dismiss free