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2026

The CORS Wars: Building an Edge API Gateway and the Bugs That Nearly Broke Us

How a simple API gateway became a battlefield — CORS meltdowns, auth nightmares, leaked secrets, and four commits in three minutes that changed everything.

March 22, 2026
16 min read
Why We Migrated from Next.js to Astro (And What We Learned Along the Way)

Hard lessons learned about JavaScript hydration, First Load JS, and what "interactive" really means after migrating our stack from Next.js to Astro.

January 23, 2026
7 min read
Building the Website Hook SDK: A Story of Iteration and Hard Decisions

How we evolved our client-side tracking SDK through multiple architectural pivots, from screenshot capture to event batching, and the technical decisions that shaped the final product.

January 7, 2026
10 min read