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June 24, 2026•government, software, architecture, india, opinion

How I'd Actually Build Government Software That Doesn't Fall Over

You don't fix a meltdown with experts parachuting in after the breach. You fix it with defaults that make the breach hard to commit: a federated core, HTML-first frontends, and storage you can't make public.

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January 22, 2026•astro, search, google, api, typescript

Why I Didn't Use Google Programmable Search

Google's search API sounds perfect for static sites. It isn't. Here's why the pricing model and indexing delays make it impractical for most blogs.

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