•astro, search, performance, comparison, engineering
I Tried 4 Search Engines So You Don't Have To
Here's the definitive guide to choosing between Orama, Pagefind, Meilisearch, and Google for your static site.
My posts on code.
I write about anything and everything that interests me.
•astro, performance, automation, typescript, ux-engineering, image-optimization
How to generate blurry placeholders for your images
How I eliminated layout shift and improved perceived performance by generating 20px base64 placeholders automatically at build time.
•astro, search, pagefind, performance, typescript
Why I Switched from Orama to Pagefind
Why I use Pagefind: A deep dive into chunked indexing, bandwidth scaling, and setting up a production-grade search for Astro.
•government, procurement, open-source, india, opinion
GitHub for Government Work
The multi-year, single-vendor RFP is the root cause. Treat the core platform as an open commons instead: small priced tasks, paid per merged pull request, governed hard.
•government, software, india, security, opinion
BTS of CBSE's Infra Meltdown.
CBSE called its result-day collapse a cyberattack. The numbers say plain demand: 1.5 million hits in two minutes is barely four percent of its own students. This is what monolithic, one-vendor government IT produces under load.
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