Sveltekit Blog Engine

Watching the entire runtime ecosystem burn while sitting comfortably in a visitor-free sandbox, and realizing that hand-crafting a blog engine in the age of AI is peak self-delusion.

A look into the mind of a dev shameless enough to use the PHP disaster to flex their own custom blog engine (feature: zero users).

A record of the reality check and dilemma I faced while contemplating LLM posting integration for a blog engine I built myself out of frustration with junk posts.

A post-mortem documenting a bizarre bug where post view counts were displayed inconsistently. A troubleshooting chronicle of uncovering and fixing root causes entangled in two pieces of debt: unsynchronized split D1 databases and aggressive frontend localStorage cache overwrites.

This post covers the experience of comparing and analyzing traffic discrepancies and bot-filtering challenges across different analytics tools, including CFA, GA4, and Google AdSense. It discusses the practical reality of metrics tracking and details the optimization process—replacing real-time API calls with an hourly Cron worker and Cloudflare D1 to resolve dashboard loading delays.