dout.dev - making-of https://dout.dev/tags/making-of/ RSS feed for posts tagged with making-of en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pi and DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Daily Coding Loop That Costs Almost Nothing https://dout.dev/posts/2026-06-20-pi-dev-deepseek-v4-flash-daily-loop.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-06-20-pi-dev-deepseek-v4-flash-daily-loop.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The headline numbers Vibe Coding With Rigor (Or: How to Use AI Without Your Codebase Turning Into a Dumpster Fire) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-26-vibe-coding-with-rigor.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-26-vibe-coding-with-rigor.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The term I am reclaiming (because "vibe coding" got a bad rap) CI/CD Around GitHub Pages (Or: How I Got Deploy Previews Without Paying Netlify) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-23-ci-cd-around-github-pages.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-23-ci-cd-around-github-pages.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The gap GitHub Pages leaves open (it's not that bad) Quality Gate: Linting, Formatting, and Verify (Or: How I Stopped Shipping Broken HTML) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-19-quality-gate-lint-format-verify.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-19-quality-gate-lint-format-verify.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the gate exists (because you will ship shit if you don't) SEO Metadata Without Rituals (Or: I Read 47 SEO Blog Posts So You Don't Have To) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-16-seo-metadata-without-rituals.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-16-seo-metadata-without-rituals.html Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The short version (TL;DR for the impatient) OG Images at Build Time (Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Sharp) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-12-og-images-at-build-time.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-12-og-images-at-build-time.html Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The problem and the usual solutions (none of which I wanted) Feeds and Sitemaps at Build Time (RSS Is Dead, Long Live RSS. Also JSON Feed.) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-09-feeds-and-sitemaps-at-build-time.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-09-feeds-and-sitemaps-at-build-time.html Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The distribution minimum (three files, that's it) Build Assets Pipeline (Or: How I Turned a Simple Blog Into an Image Processing Factory) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-05-build-assets-pipeline.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-05-build-assets-pipeline.html Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The goal (four non-negotiable constraints) Design Tokens Before Pages (Yes, I Wrote the CSS Before the First Line of HTML) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-02-design-tokens-before-pages.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-05-02-design-tokens-before-pages.html Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mistake I kept making (repeat after me: tokens first) Progressive Enhancement as Contract (Yes, It Works Without JS. No, I'm Not Kidding.) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-28-progressive-enhancement-as-contract.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-28-progressive-enhancement-as-contract.html Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The contract (read this part) Archives, Tags, Months, and Series (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pagination) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-25-archives-tags-months-series.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-25-archives-tags-months-series.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three ways to slice the same posts (because one axis is never enough) Template Engine and Template Structure (Or: Why I Didn't Use Handlebars Like a Normal Person) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-21-template-engine-and-template-structure.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-21-template-engine-and-template-structure.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three constraints that shaped the grammar (because constraints are good, actually) Custom SSG Pipeline: From Markdown to Static HTML (Without Losing Your Mind) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-18-custom-ssg-pipeline.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-18-custom-ssg-pipeline.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The pipeline, in one picture (because I know you're skimming) Why I Skipped Astro, Eleventy and Next.js (And Built My Own SSG Like a Goddamn Caveman) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-14-why-no-astro-eleventy-next.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-14-why-no-astro-eleventy-next.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The default answer and why I ignored it Rebuilding dout.dev With an AI Copilot: Less Boilerplate, Same Amount of Existential Dread https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-11-rebuilding-dout-dev-with-ai-copilot.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-11-rebuilding-dout-dev-with-ai-copilot.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The honest framing CMS and Markdown Processing (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flat File) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-07-cms-and-markdown-processing.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-07-cms-and-markdown-processing.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The useful distinction How I Built dout.dev (and why I did not use a framework like a normal person) https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-04-how-i-built-dout-dev.html https://dout.dev/posts/2026-04-04-how-i-built-dout-dev.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What the stack is, exactly (TL;DR: files + Node + blood)