The fourth and final post in the trackers series — flip the architecture from private extension to a public digital twin website. Many extensions feeding one database, periodic exports from Google Takeout / Apple Health / YouTube history, real-time webhooks from Strava and Last.fm, displayed beautifully on web and mobile PWA. Free hosting, free database, your data, your face on the internet.
Thirteen orphan repos, one rejected AdSense application, and a decision to consolidate everything onto a single Astro 6 deploy on Cloudflare.
Real free-tier limits, the no-card-on-file rule, and why Cloudflare beats Vercel Hobby for an AdSense-monetized indie site.
Migrating from the legacy collections API to the Content Layer, modeling 1,864 book summary pages with one Zod schema, and why Astro.glob is gone.
Master Astro Islands, partial hydration, Tailwind theme variables, Nanostores cross-island state sharing, TanStack Query v5 caching, and Pagefind client indexing. Complete 30-resource blueprint.
Learn to build fast, modern JAMstack websites with Astro 6 in 2026. Complete guide covering setup, islands architecture, content collections, and deployment.
Using shadcn/ui copy-paste components in Astro 6 with React 19 islands. Why I rejected Park UI, DaisyUI, and Mantine, and how I picked 15 components instead of 50.
A deep dive into how I built this blog from scratch — the architecture decisions, tech stack, automation, and features that make it fast, free, and developer-friendly.
A deep-dive analysis of the blog.oriz.in repository: architecture, component design, deployment automation, coding conventions, and lessons learned from building a production Astro blog.
How to build fast, free, client-side SPA using Astro's static output and React, deployable on Cloudflare Pages with zero server costs.