Blog
We write about the decisions we made while building, and why we made them.
A page left open for days went blank on navigation with 'text/html' is not a valid JavaScript MIME type. Content-hashed filenames, Cloudflare Pages removing assets of older deployments, and the SPA catch-all redirect combine to produce it. The conditions and the fix.
Changing a constraint in SQLite requires rebuilding the table, but D1 cannot run PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF, so a table referenced by a foreign key cannot be rebuilt. The workaround, and how orm-d1 detects the case.
Configuration for products spread across several Cloudflare accounts, held as Pulumi + TypeScript, with secrets committed encrypted by SOPS. How API tokens are minted, and what stayed manual because no API exists.
D1 has limits and features with no counterpart elsewhere — per-plan limits, 100 bind parameters, batch as the unit of atomicity, the Sessions API. orm-d1 puts them on the surface of the API. The design decisions, and bundle sizes measured with esbuild.
An architecture where nothing is billed beyond Cloudflare usage and Stripe's payment fees. How the work divides between Astro, Workers, D1, R2 and Stripe, and where static generation gives way to an SPA.
We have opened the Nami Smart LLC engineering blog. What we build, and the technical decisions we work by.
