When .NET 10 Deleted the File We Were Proudly Preloading
A few weeks ago, I wrote about shaving nearly a second off ZikFash's boot time by preloading blazor.boot.json before the browser even asked for it. It worked. I was pleased with myself. Then .NET 10 landed, and that exact same line of code turned into a 404 error in my own console.
Deciphering the 2-Second Silence - A Blazor WASM Load-Time Investigation
Chrome Lighthouse doesn't do insults, but the number it gave me felt like one anyway.
Building ZikFash Offline-First - Engineering Trust When the Network Isn't There
My mother runs a tailoring shop. That's not a fun fact — it's the whole reason ZikFash exists. I've watched her write "Half Waist" and "Shoulder Width" into a paper record book for years, and I've watched the power cut mid-measurement more times than I can count. Any app that's supposed to replace that paper book has to survive the exact moment the internet doesn't.