Running a Claude Code skill from another repo — a symlink, cd -P, and every path absolute
Making a Claude Code skill reachable from any repository: a symlink for discovery, additionalDirectories for access, one cd -P at entry, and no relative paths.
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An Astro service worker showed new articles one visit late — network-first for listings
An Astro service worker served every navigation from cache first, so new articles appeared one visit late. Listings now go to the network first.
An Astro service worker that keeps the pages you read offline — a 205KB shell and a 50-page cap
A service worker for an Astro blog that precaches 205KB of site-wide CSS and JS, keeps each article as it is read up to 50, and caches figure styles on demand.
Reaching a bigger audience while your own copy stays primary — rel=canonical and full-text RSS
What backlinks and rel=canonical do, why Zenn and Qiita change the plan, and the pipeline that makes republishing an article a paste rather than a project.
An Astro blog Google and ChatGPT can find — robots.txt, JSON-LD, Markdown twins, IndexNow
How this Astro blog got into Google and Bing: a robots.txt naming each AI crawler, JSON-LD in the head, Markdown copies of articles, and IndexNow.
Dependabot minimum release age and auto-merge — the trap in a private repo
On a private repo the dependency graph is off by default, so Dependabot opened no npm pull request, and the auto-merge workflow merged 45s before CI finished.
Astro article badges from Vercel Web Analytics — resolved in the build, shipped as static HTML
How this Astro blog badges its most-read articles: one Vercel Web Analytics query during the build, summed across three locales, baked into static HTML.
CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR let me move my glossary out of a Claude Code skill — and stop approving every write
Claude Code treats .claude/ as a protected path, so allow rules cannot pre-approve writes there. Moving a mutable glossary out with CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR.
How do Chrome DevTools MCP and Playwright MCP differ, and why I chose Chrome DevTools for my Astro blog
Chrome DevTools MCP and Playwright MCP expose different surfaces to a coding agent. What each gives you, and why an Astro blog kept one and denied the other.
A static Astro blog that counts likes — one Vercel route and Upstash Redis
Adding a shared like counter to a fully static Astro site: one non-prerendered route, Upstash Redis key design, and the CI bugs that verifying it cost.
How I made Japanese search work by intercepting Pagefind's Enter key in the capture phase
Pagefind navigated away while an IME conversion was open. isComposing is necessary but not sufficient: WebKit fires compositionend before the keydown.
How I made Astro figures size themselves and enlarge on tap — intrinsic width, a native dialog, and @2x
Why width:100% blurred a 256px screenshot in Astro, and how a native dialog made every diagram readable on a phone. Seven measurements corrected the design.