Building a Full-Stack Habit Tracker with Claude Code - Part 2: Polish, Testing & Deployment Taking the habit tracker from MVP to production-ready with categories, analytics, comprehensive testing, and Vercel deployment In [Part 1], we built a fully functional habit tracker MVP in about 6-8 hours using Claude Code as our AI pair programmer. We had: ✅ Basic CRUD operations for habits ✅ Date-based
My Hugo blog was downloading 3.6 MB of JavaScript and 40 KB of external CSS on every page load. For a static blog with mostly text and a few diagrams, that was absurd. Here is how I fixed it. HTML: 86 KB JavaScript: 3.6 MB (Mermaid + KaTeX) CSS: 40 KB (KaTeX stylesheets) Problem: render-blocking scripts loaded on every page for math and diagrams Adding minifyOutput = true to hugo.toml shrunk HTML
The "Deploy" button is not a self-destruct mechanism for your career, despite what your brain screams. We’ve all been there: you’ve poured hours into a project, the code is (mostly) working locally, and then you stare at that final, terrifying button. The one that says "Deploy". It's a mental roadblock, a sudden surge of "what ifs" that can paralyze even experienced developers. But here's the secr