Field notes
Writing about speed.
Practical notes on migration, deliverability, and the Cloudflare edge — no fluff.
Why I moved this WordPress site to Astro on Cloudflare
A plain-English walkthrough of a WordPress-to-Astro migration: what got faster, what got cheaper, and what had to stay.
R2 + D1: the serverless stack that replaces your VPS
Cloudflare R2 stores your media without egress fees, and D1 gives you a SQL database without a server. Together they kill the VPS for most small sites.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC — stop landing in spam
Email deliverability is three DNS records and a reputation you build over time. Here's the setup that takes a domain from 3/10 to 10/10 on mail-tester.
How to hit 100/100 on PageSpeed Insights
A 100/100 isn't about tricking the test — it's about shipping almost nothing. Here's the checklist I run on every site.