Project Alpha
A focused exploration of typed content pipelines and edge deployment.
Overview
Project Alpha is a small experiment in pushing as much work as possible to build time:
content is validated with zod, routes are pre‑rendered, and the
runtime is a single line — event.respondWith(fetch(event.request)).
Highlights
- Strictly‑typed Markdown frontmatter via Astro Content Collections.
- < 10kB JS shipped to the browser per page.
- Sub‑100ms first byte from any continent (Cloudflare’s edge).
Lessons
The most surprising lesson was how little I missed having a server. Once content is modelled properly, the platform almost disappears.