Engineer building full-stack GenAI products.https://civiks.tech/https://civiks.tech/writing/astro-7-upgrade/https://civiks.tech/writing/astro-7-upgrade/Astro 7 ships on Vite 8. A bug in Vite's new CSS resolver broke this site's Tailwind setup, and the fix was switching back to the exact plugin a previous Astro upgrade had moved away from.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://civiks.tech/writing/tailwind-v4-scale-transition/https://civiks.tech/writing/tailwind-v4-scale-transition/Tailwind v4 emits scale, rotate, and translate as separate CSS properties instead of folding them into transform, so a transition written for transform silently stops working.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://civiks.tech/writing/mirroring-an-angular-quiz/https://civiks.tech/writing/mirroring-an-angular-quiz/A browser extension that flattens the IITM assessment portal's one-question-per-page interface into a single scroll, built by probing a minified Angular SPA from the console.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://civiks.tech/writing/building-a-notepad/https://civiks.tech/writing/building-a-notepad/A skeuomorphic build that sweats the details. Ruled lines from a gradient, a physically-correct shadow, paper grain, and checkmarks that draw themselves in on scroll.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://civiks.tech/writing/astro-6-fonts-api/https://civiks.tech/writing/astro-6-fonts-api/Astro 6 replaces hand-written @font-face blocks with a single config array and fetches fonts at build time instead of from Google. Font payload on this site dropped from ~280KB to ~126KB.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT