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Notes on frontend & performance.

Engineering write-ups on the craft — building 0→1, web performance, and the invisible work in the build.

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How to get a free email at your own domain (like hello@yourdomain.com)

Own a domain? Get a free email address on it in about 15 minutes. New mail shows up in your normal Gmail, and you can reply from your new address too. Every step explained in plain words, with copy-paste records.

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How this site ships zero JavaScript frameworks — and scores 100/100/100/100

The engineering behind airahul.com is in the build, not the runtime. Here's how a hand-built Astro pipeline produces static HTML with no hydration, inlined CSS, and a perfect Lighthouse score — deployed to S3 + CloudFront.

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