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Performance
5 posts.
Cutting Backend CI by 76%
A Django test pipeline went from a median of 18.5 minutes to 4.5. Almost none of it came from making tests faster. The last part was a connection budget.
· 6 min read
Rebuilding my personal site
A short tour of the latest rebuild: a static-first site with no client framework, reduced motion as a real signal, and most of the work shifted to build time.
· 3 min read
Caching Sharp-Processed Images in Static Builds
How I cut documentation build times by hashing image inputs, committing the preprocessed webp outputs, and skipping image work on every CI run.
· 3 min read
Replacing Astro Image for a Documentation Site
Why I removed Astro's built-in Image component from a docs site and replaced it with a thin custom wrapper, and the lesson about when generic abstractions cost more than they save.
· 3 min read
A Practical Prefetching Strategy with TanStack Query and Router
How I implemented intent-based preloading, route-level prefetching, and pagination prefetching to make a dashboard feel instant.
· 4 min read