Cutting Vercel deployment storage from 13.96 GB to 20.27 MB — previews off, retention down
A Vercel Hobby account went over its 10 GB deployment storage limit. Deployment count was the cause, at 147 MB per build and 189 builds in thirty days.
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A hand-authored, self-verifying CSP for Astro on Vercel — after security.csp broke offline support
Astro's own security.csp feature silently breaks service-worker registration. A hand-authored CSP for Astro on Vercel, verified by CI and a real browser.
Making an Astro blog findable by Google and ChatGPT — robots.txt, JSON-LD, and IndexNow
How this Astro blog got robots.txt, JSON-LD, Markdown twins and IndexNow. The domain was not why Google could not find it, and llms.txt was not the fix.
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.
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.