Cache invalidation for people who hate cache invalidation
Fine-grained invalidation is a graph problem you will lose. A generation counter is a single integer that cannot be subtly wrong — and for a blog, it costs you almost nothing.
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Performance
Core Web Vitals, caching, render budgets and the cost of every byte.
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A Core Web Vitals budget you can actually keep
LCP, CLS and INP are not abstract scores — each one maps to a specific resource decision. Give every decision a number and the score takes care of itself.
Your blog does not need 1.2 MB of JavaScript
Most publishing stacks ship a framework, a hydration pass and a font stack to render what is, functionally, a text document. Here is what happens when you delete all three.