Allen Elzayn

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Frontend Roundup October 2025: Next.js 16, Astro 5.15, Node 22 LTS, CSS View Transitions, and Vite+

Frontend Roundup October 2025: Next.js 16, Astro 5.15, Node 22 LTS, CSS View Transitions, and Vite+

Major frontend ecosystem updates in October 2025: Next.js 16 with stable Turbopack, Astro 5.15 skew protection, Node 22 LTS, CSS View Transitions reaching Baseline, and Vite+ unified toolchain.


Meta's $75B AI Infrastructure Bet: Inside the Biggest Cloud Deals of 2025

Meta's $75B AI Infrastructure Bet: Inside the Biggest Cloud Deals of 2025

How Meta spent $75 billion in three months on AI infrastructure-and why Wall Street is worried it might be a bubble.


DeepSeek-OCR: When a Picture Is Actually Worth 10 Fewer Tokens

DeepSeek-OCR: When a Picture Is Actually Worth 10 Fewer Tokens

How DeepSeek-OCR achieves 10× token compression for document processing, cutting API costs by 90% while maintaining 97% accuracy.


Building a Distributed Cron System That Scales to 1000+ Users for $0/Month

How I built a production-ready distributed queue system using Cloudflare Workers, Service Bindings, and D1 that processes 1000+ users in parallel-completely free.