Adam Argyle

Bye Deno, Hello Cloudflare

webmaster@admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMT

So Deno, I still really align with it. I had a blast customizing the crap out of an artisanally rolled server rendered blog I built on it but…

They were acquired by Cloudflare and Deno Deploy was set to shut down.

I took this as a good time to get off the SSR + cache system I'd created on Deno + KV, and get closer to what my site actually was, a mostly static site.

I picked Astro + Cloudflare. It's done, and you're reading this on it.

I've always liked Cloudflare, and I knew exactly which pieces I would use to support my site migration:

I'm sure Deno was basically spinning up equivalent services on Google Cloud, so now I'm saving money per month and even closer to the individual tools I needed to adopt.

The plan #

JAM, CDNs, SQLite, Cron

Make the site static.
Every page is built ahead of time, no server rendering.
Keep the 3 dynamic bits alive in a tiny Worker.
The anonymous like button, live view and like counts, and the social cron jobs.
Put everything on Cloudflare.
Cron, edge endpoints, D1 for likes and counts, R2 bucket for static assets.

Fresh → Astro #

The posts on my site, the core content, were markdown already.

Since Astro is rad, my Deno Fresh / Preact components were kept and are rendered inside Astro at build time. Kinda nice I didnt need to migrate my component model.

Most of the migration was spent porting Deno and Deno Deploy features to Cloudflare.

Stuff I juggled #

Deno KV migration: Likes and counts lived in KV. They moved to D1. I exported production's KV (about 1,900 entries) and imported it, so no counts reset.

911 MB of media: Way too much to ship with every deploy. It all moved to R2, and the Worker serves it from the same /media/* URLs, so no old link or embed breaks.

Crons: Deno.cron became Worker cron triggers. The social stats job got smarter on the way: fresh posts get checked often, old ones rarely, so it stays inside the platform's limits.

Analytics: Pirsch hits now fire from the Worker on the server side, so adblockers can't eat them.

A moving target: I kept writing posts and merging PRs mid-migration. Instead of freezing everything, a sync script replayed new commits onto the Astro tree, right up to the end.

Secrets: Some lived in Deno's dashboard and can't be read back out. I had to conjure freshies and set them on the Worker. Not hard, just annoying.

The cutover #

DNS switch went smooth. Just had to add the zone to Cloudflare, copy records, swap nameservers. I flipped them this morning, attached the custom domain to the Worker, and boop done.

I'll keep the Deno site up for a few days as a rollback. Plus, a couple old DNS caches will still hit it for a bit, so I'll reconcile any likes that landed there in the meantime. Maybe.

The results #

Thanks Deno, it was a good run.

Same site, pixel for pixel
Faster
Cheaper

🦕 → ☁️

The forcing function worked out pretty good. Sometimes you need a good kick in the ass.

WWW Ep257 Local Engineer Runs Out Of Tokens

adam@whiskey.fm — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:38:44 GMT

Ep #257
Local Engineer Runs Out of Tokens, Discovers "Programming"

Robbie and I sip a rye and talk token budgets, Copilot getting yanked mid-workflow, SDD with worktrees, whether frameworks still matter, slop as a choice, Jeff the cliff-diving lawnmower, and Amp as the a Bowflex.

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Scroll Axis Design System Rule

atom@argyleink — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:49:04 GMT

Design system rule:

Y scroll = scroll trigger
X scroll = scroll driven

Designing Whiskey Glasses with Denver Cramer

adam@whiskey.fm — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:48:36 GMT

Robbie and I chin wag and sip on a tasty dram with Denver Cramer; industrial designer, distiller, photographer, and creator of Denver and Liely glassware.

Dude, Denver is coo.

YouTube video player

whiskey.fm · spotify · apple

The dram #

We enjoyed a sweet n' peaty Starward single malt finished in a Lagavulin cask 😍

Red wine barrels, Melbourne's four-seasons-in-a-day climate, and grassiness fading into sweetness.

Plus we dig tons into other whiskeys, like why Octomore 8.3 is the ultimate peat monster.

The glassware #

We dig into designing a bourbon glass for corn spirits versus a whisky glass for barley, smelling at the top versus the bottom of the glass, and eight years of R&D.

The staple whiskey glass is the bourbon glass:

See post on Intagram

I LOVE the feel and aesthetics of the turbine wine glass:

then there's also the gin glass, which Ryan Reynolds loves to have with his own brand of gin:

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Denver and Liely (@denverandliely)

Then there's me, the scotch drinker, and I love the feel, weight, and features of the whiskey glass:

The whatnot #

Of course we gotta bring the whatnot!

raising kids before and after AI
teaching them to code with retro video games
planting 400 Pinot Noir vines to learn winemaking
luthiers versus engineers
and why the banjo is part drum, part guitar, part lead singer

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WWW Ep255 Meta Harnesses Medical Midjourney And Specialists

adam@whiskey.fm — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:33:36 GMT

Ep #255
Meta-Harnesses, Medical Midjourney, and Why Specialists Are Cooked

Robbie and I are back together, talking token limits, OpenCode burning budgets, work trees for parallel agents, Impeccable's art direction grilling, CodeRabbit versus Copilot for PR reviews, self-healing loops that never heal, a robot lawnmower named Jeff, and why the meta harness layer is probably going to die soon.

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Page View Count Regression Fixed

webmaster@admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:45:16 GMT

Page view counts regressed Oct 1 and were fixed just now. Hopefully those historical counts can be retrieved or fixed; working on it.

Transitioning Field Sizing Content With CSS

atom@argyleink — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:04:08 GMT

Neat CSS trick:

Use anchor to track the size changes in a textarea (or whatever) and transition instead of instantly update 🤘🏻

See on Codepen

Front End Fast Money With Kevin Powell

atom@argyleink — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:57:57 GMT

30s on the clock, how well do my CSS answers stack up against Kevin's audience?

Watch on YouTube

WWW Ep254 From Geocities To Gpt Brad Frost

adam@whiskey.fm — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Ep #254
With Brad Frost ✨

Robbie and I welcome Brad Frost to talk grief and acceptance around AI, the Orchid synth, snowboarding as a metaphor for finding your line through chaos, why domain expertise matters more than ever, Van Halen's green M&Ms, and Brad's AI and Design Systems course.

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BanjoCSS

atom@argyleink — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:42:16 GMT

Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains.

Chris and I met halfway between our homes to jam.

We met at a tiny campsite, where we hoped the lack of amenities would mean no neighbors.

It worked.

We were the only campers at the site, which meant we could make some noise!

Time to bum-ditty 🤘🏻

Couple a banjo dorks #

We brought tons of instruments, played them until it got dark. Was Awesome.

We caught a couple early jams on video.

Sandy River Belle:

Fire On The Mountain:

Shoes & Stockings:

Overall Chris is MUCH better than me, so I watched and learned as much as I could.

A few pics #

Mt. Hood was lookin great.

And here's a nice pano of the trip down the mountain:

Didn't really chat about CSS #

We coulda, but we didn't.