Mar 7 · 5 min read · Originally published on nvarma.com I'd just finished setting up a newsletter with Kit and tried webmentions (p.s. it was a waste of time, no backlinks showed up). I was thinking about what would actually make this site more useful for anyone who vis...
Join discussionMar 3 · 5 min read · Astro vs Next.js: Choosing the Right Framework for Your Project Astro and Next.js are both excellent tools for building modern websites — but they make fundamentally different trade-offs. Choosing the wrong one adds unnecessary complexity or leaves p...
Join discussionFeb 18 · 4 min read · The Default Stack I Never Questioned For a long time, Next.js was my default. If I had an idea, I’d run npx create-next-app@latest, connect it to Vercel, and I was live. I was simple. It was seamless. And honestly? I didn’t have to think too much. Ne...
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Feb 12 · 11 min read · Astro Islands: Partial Hydration Strategy Explained Modern web applications face a critical performance paradox: users demand rich interactivity while Google's Core Web Vitals penalize JavaScript-heavy pages. The average JavaScript bundle size has gr...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 3 min read · Astro 4 Islands Architecture: Ship 90% Less JavaScript The Problem That Nobody Talks About I still remember the day when I discovered this the hard way. After months of using the old approach, I stumbled upon this solution and everything changed. Tab...
Join discussionFeb 9 · 7 min read · Two weeks ago, Cloudflare acquired Astro. Days later, Astro 6 Beta dropped with first-class Cloudflare Workers support. The timing wasn't a coincidence. As someone who recently rewrote Hashnode's Next.js Starter Kit in Astro and has been building on ...
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Jan 26 · 10 min read · Introduction Modern web frameworks are insanely attractive. They ship fast. They demo beautifully. They win Twitter. They have incredible Developer Experience. And they often feel like the “obvious choice” when you're building a new product. But here...
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Jan 19 · 2 min read · The Motivation 🎮 I recently fell down the rabbit hole of the indie horror game "Dead Plate". It's a brilliant RPG Maker game, but it relies heavily on hidden statistics and RNG. Most players (including myself) were stuck reading 50-page text PDFs ju...
Join discussionJan 9 · 3 min read · The Problem: "Wiki Bloat" 🐢 I'm a huge JRPG fan. When the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Demo dropped on Switch 2 recently, I rushed to find a guide. But the state of modern game documentation is sad. Most wikis are Single Page Applications (SPAs) load...
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Jan 3 · 5 min read · If you’ve read my blogs recently you’d notice something reoccurring. Me always saying I want to write more. But now I’ve put the structures in place that makes that possible. My first blog post was because of HNG in 2024. They said we should write an...
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