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Building a Newsletter System Without the Headache

How I added a complete newsletter system to my static Astro site using Cloudflare KV, Resend, and MDX - no external CMS required.

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How to generate animated icons with TypeScript

How I replaced my Lordicon nav icons with seven animated sprite icons drawn in TypeScript, rendered with sharp, and played on a canvas.

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BTS of CBSE's Infra Meltdown.

CBSE called its result-day collapse a cyberattack. The numbers say plain demand, the kind monolithic, one-vendor government IT can't survive.

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Meilisearch is the Best Search You'll Never Need

Self-hosting Meilisearch with Docker, Traefik, and Astro - complete with API key management, content indexing, and rate limiting.

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Self-hosting done right with Ansible & Docker

Learning infrastructure automation the hard way - from multi-node cluster-f*ck to a production-ready, single-node setup with Ansible.

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How to build an interactive Grok Bot-like avatar

Build a Grok Bot-like avatar with SVG, Astro, and React. Add cursor tracking, expressive eyes, protective winks, and natural idle animations.

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How to generate animated pixel art with AI and Python

How I built a pixel-perfect animated hero section using Midjourney, a custom Python processing pipeline, and Astro View Transitions.

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Setting Up Traefik: From Local to Production

Building three different Traefik configurations - from simple local development to production-ready infrastructure with security layers.

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