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The 50MB Markdown Files That Broke Our Server: A Debugging Tale

The 50MB Markdown Files That Broke Our Server: A Debugging Tale

When server response times mysteriously fluctuated from 50ms to 1000ms, a developer embarked on a month-long debugging journey that revealed a surprising culprit: oversized user-generated content. This case study explores the challenges of diagnosing performance issues in complex systems and the critical importance of proper instrumentation.
Self‑Hosting Slidev Presentations: From Markdown to Nginx in Minutes

Self‑Hosting Slidev Presentations: From Markdown to Nginx in Minutes

Slidev turns Markdown into interactive slides, and this guide shows how developers can ship those slides as static assets and serve them with Nginx in under ten minutes. The post walks through building, transferring, and configuring a VPS, while hinting at CI/CD automation and the broader shift toward static‑site hosting for presentations.

Dave Winer’s Markdown OPML: A Quiet, Radical Rethink of How We Wire the Web Together

Dave Winer is experimenting with a Markdown-powered OPML feed that treats outlines as first-class, linkable, scriptable web primitives. It’s not flashy—but for developers thinking about open standards, knowledge graphs, feed formats, and programmable writing, it’s a glimpse of what an interoperable, tool-agnostic web could look like.