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Web Architecture Next.js Static Architecture Cloud Platforms

When Static Isn't Enough: Adding Edge Functions Without Losing the Benefits

Static-first doesn't mean static-only. Here's how to add server-side logic at the edge without giving up the performance and simplicity you chose static for.

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Static Architecture Web Architecture Signal vs Noise

RSS Is Quietly Winning Again. Static Sites Should Ship a Feed.

RSS never died — it became the underlayer for Mastodon, Bluesky, AI agents, and every newsletter aggregator. Static sites can ship a feed at build time in 50 lines. Here's why you should.

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Next.js Static Architecture Web Performance

OpenGraph Images at Build Time: Why Static Sites Win Social Cards

Generating social card images on demand from a serverless function feels modern. It's also slow, expensive, and fragile. Static sites can pre-render every OG image at build time, cache it forever, and never pay for it again.

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Web Architecture Next.js Static Architecture

View Transitions Are Finally Usable

For a decade, smooth page transitions meant shipping a SPA router and giving up the simplicity of multi-page architecture. The View Transitions API ends that tradeoff — and it's finally supported everywhere that matters.

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Automation Developer Experience (DX) Signal vs Noise

AI-Assisted Development Is Not About Writing Code Faster

Everyone's measuring AI by lines-per-minute. The real leverage is in architecture, debugging, and the work nobody wants to do.

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Developer Experience (DX) Automation Static Architecture

Git Is Your CMS: A Content Workflow That Scales Without a Database

Git already has versioning, branching, review, collaboration, and publishing. Pair it with CI/CD and you have a content workflow more powerful than any admin panel.

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Static Architecture Web Architecture Developer Experience (DX)

You Don't Need a Backend: Building Contact Forms, Comments, and Auth on Static Sites

The 'but my client needs a contact form' objection to static sites is five years out of date. Here's how to add forms, comments, auth, search, payments, and newsletters — with code.

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Next.js Static Architecture Web Architecture

SEO Without a Plugin: How Static Sites Win at Search

Structured data, Open Graph, sitemaps, and RSS — all generated at build time, all under your control, and none of them require a plugin that phones home.

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Cloud Platforms DevOps Static Architecture

The $0 Hosting Tier Is the New Default

Free-tier static hosting from Render, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, and Netlify is so capable that paying for hosting is now a choice, not a requirement.

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Next.js Static Architecture Developer Experience (DX)

Image Optimization Is a Solved Problem (If Your Site Is Static)

Sharp at build time, next/image in static export, WebP/AVIF variants, blur placeholders, responsive srcset — image optimization used to be a manual chore. Now it's a build step.

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Node.js Developer Experience (DX) Web Architecture

Stop Installing What Node.js Already Gives You

Node.js now ships with fetch, a test runner, env file loading, file watching, and more. Half the packages in your node_modules are solving problems the runtime already solved.

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DevOps Static Architecture Web Architecture

Zero-Downtime Deployments Are Easy When Your Site Is Static

Blue-green deployments, canary rollouts, instant rollbacks — the DevOps practices that keep SREs up at night are trivially simple when your output is a folder of files.