Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 4, 2026

Refactoring English

Merged together the purchase page and landing page
Added a custom 404 page
Added testimonials to the main page
Moved the list of supporters off the landing page
Cleaned up remaining references to “Early Access”
- It’s now just a regular purchase

Fixed Bunny Shield rules
- I was accidentally blocking all requests to /domain routes
Migrated the site from Netlify to surge.sh
Migrated the Netlify function logic to a Fly.io scale-to-zero service
Migrated CI from CircleCI to NixCI
Migrated HTML checks from htmlproofer to lychee

This is the site for my old course, and I noticed one bug and went down a rabbit hole of updating everything to my new patterns

The bug I noticed was that if you click a section in the navbar, it just uses JS to scroll instead of updating the URL with the anchor target, so now that’s fixed
- e.g., https://hitthefrontpage.com/#reviews
Converted the site from plain HTML to generated HTML with eleventy
- The site’s based on a template I purchased, but the code was terrible and was always such a pain to edit because it had tons of repetitive boilerplate.
- Conversion to eleventy was a great job for AI because it could refactor and verify that the generated output was functionally equivalent.
Replaced a ton of extraneous dependencies like Bootstrap, FontAwesome, jQuery
Added better linting to the frontend
Converted everything to a nix-based build
Switched from CircleCI to CrowCI + NixBuild.net
Moved hosting to surge.sh

Switched to batched JMAP operations
- We were doing JMAP calls on a per-message basis, which was creating thousands of HTTP calls for large threads, and I realized we could coalesce together the
Added more robustness checks to bulk archive jobs
Improved performance of indexing and page loading
Added email address auto-complete
Added more filters for searching emails by archive
Migrated to go-evolutionary-migrate v2

Moved the repo from Codeberg to Codefloe
Added a CrowCI/NixCI config
Tightened rules on SQL filenames
- I realized in Mail Archiver that I’d created two SQL migrations with the prefix 005-, and that’s something that the library should hard fail on so that we don’t apply migrations in unexpected order.

Removed myself from the docker group
- After everyone made fun of DHH for doing this by default, I realized this was my setup.
- Apparently, it’s a free elevation to root for anything that can run in the context of an account in the docker group.