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Every post here comes from work I did, with the numbers I measured. Restating what the documentation already says competes with the documentation and loses.

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Stripe does not work in Bangladesh. Here is what actually does.

Stripe, PayPal and Wise are all unavailable to a Bangladeshi merchant, and the popular merchant-of-record platforms ban selling services outright. A practical map of what is left, and what it means for how you architect billing.

Running a studio · 7 min read

Performance

Cutting a React bundle by 68%, and why the precache was the real problem

A client site shipped 1.18 MB of JavaScript and precached 65 MB of assets to every visitor. The bundle got the attention; the service worker was doing far more damage.

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