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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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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
53 entries · latest 2026-08-07
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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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Starting Style and Entry Animations in CSS Without JavaScript
@starting-style ships in every modern browser as of 2024
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Generate Open Graph Images On the Fly With Satori and Resvg
Satori turns JSX into SVG with zero browser, runs in 40ms
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Headless Claude Code: 5 Things I Run From My GitHub Actions
Claude Code -p runs headless in CI with zero terminal
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From Notion to MCP Server: I Rebuilt 4 Workflows in a Weekend
Migrated 4 of 7 Notion automations to an MCP server in one weekend
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How I Auto-Publish a Blog Article Per Day With GitHub Actions and Claude
Daily blog automation runs free on GitHub Actions cron at 06:00 UTC
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Why I Standardized on Phosphor Icons Across 15 Repos (And Cut 60% of Icon Bundle Size)
Five icon systems across 15 repos created visual drift and 84KB bundles in the worst Next.js app.
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Wiring Magnific Images Into a Vercel Edge Config A/B Test
Generated 3 hero variants in Magnific in under 4 minutes for the same prompt seed
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From Notion to Shopify Pages via API: A 50-Line Sync Script
A 50-line TypeScript script syncs Notion database pages to Shopify Pages via the Admin REST API
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Build a Telegram Alert Bot for Shopify Orders in 30 Lines of TypeScript
A Bun serverless function on Vercel turns Shopify orders/create webhooks into Telegram pings in under 5s