Replacing My Custom Pagefind Modal with astro-pagefind
How the astro-pagefind integration replaced three Vite workarounds with a single dependency.
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10⁻¹X Engineer stuff.
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Pagefind in Astro: The Gotchas I Hit
Three issues I ran into integrating Pagefind search into an Astro site with Vite's bundler.
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Migrating from Nuxt Content to Astro Content
What changed when I replaced Nuxt Content's schema and collections with Astro's content collections.
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Automated Dependency Updates with Supply Chain Security
How to set up Renovate or Dependabot with cooldown policies that complement pnpm's minimumReleaseAge — automated patches without opening the door to compromised packages.
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Beyond Version Checks: Provenance and Behavioral Security
Lockfiles, cooldowns, and exclusion lists are necessary but not sufficient. Provenance verification and behavioral analysis catch the attacks they miss.
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Keeping Supply Chain Exclusions Honest
Your pnpm security config decays over time. minimumReleaseAgeExclude entries pile up, trustPolicyExclude entries become stale, and allowBuilds lists drift from reality. Here's how to catch it.
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Creating a Tone Skill for AI-Assisted Blog Posts
How I turned implicit writing patterns into a reusable agent skill for consistent Clanker-authored content.
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Supply Chain Security with mise and pnpm
Trying to survive in the JS minefield
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SEO Audit of Two Astro Projects
What I found when I reviewed the Open Graph and structured data setup across bsnews and frangonf.com, and what I changed.
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Image Optimization in Astro
Replacing raw img tags with Astro's built-in Image component for automatic optimization, responsive srcsets, and format conversion.
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Adding Accessibility Testing to My Astro Site
How I added axe-core and knip to catch accessibility issues, and fixed a contrast problem hiding in my CSS variables.
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Obsidian Embed Test
Tiny post to verify Obsidian ![[...]] image embeds get transformed to standard Markdown
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Using Obsidian with Astro Content Collections
How to write blog posts in Obsidian and publish them with Astro's content collections, including wikilinks, image embeds, and frontmatter validation.