# Smiling Dev Consulting smiling.dev > A consultancy for small and medium sized businesses looking for websites, web apps, fractional CTO services, and AI solutions. ## Full Documentation - [Full Blog Content](https://smiling.dev/llms-full.txt): Complete blog posts with full content for deep context. ## Featured Projects - [Peak Warehouse Solutions](https://smiling.dev/projects/peak-warehouse-solutions): A high-performance Astro + Cloudflare Workers website for a premium steel racking distributor, emphasizing reliability and expertise with stunning racking system showcases and optimized customer acquisition. - [The Law of Importance](https://smiling.dev/projects/law-of-importance): An intensive, security-first personality assessment platform with secure user authentication, real-time scoring, and group collaboration features. Built on TanStack Start and Supabase with enterprise-grade architecture and zero-trust security implementation. - [Smiling Cookbook](https://smiling.dev/projects/smiling-cookbook): A personal recipe and food blog website built with Astro static site generation, Cloudflare Workers, and Pages CMS for content management via GitHub markdown and frontmatter documents. Features ad creation and revenue integration. - [Blue Logic Water](https://smiling.dev/projects/blue-logic-water): A lightning-fast, SEO-optimized website for a premium water filtration company, built with Astro and Cloudflare Pages delivering sub-1.2s load times and modern design aesthetics. - [Sorenson Legacy Foundation](https://smiling.dev/projects/sorenson-legacy-foundation): Secure website migration and modernization for a non-profit organization. - [East Coast Scholars](https://smiling.dev/projects/east-coast-scholars): A complete platform rewrite from AWS Amplify to Supabase, modernizing a tutoring management system with improved performance, SQL database architecture, and enhanced scalability. [View all projects](https://smiling.dev/projects) ## Recent Blog Posts - [How to migrate DNS from WIX to Cloudflare](https://smiling.dev/blog/migrate-wix-dns-to-cloudflare): Two ways to point your Wix domain to Cloudflare, including the insider secret about contacting Wix support directly and how to avoid the DNSSEC blocker. Tags: wix, dns, cloudflare, insider-secret - [Rust Shined Over Python for My CLI Tool](https://smiling.dev/blog/rust-shined-over-python-for-my-cli-tool): I rewrote a 12,000 line python CLI in rust in a week. But the real advantage wasn’t speed or performance, it was confidence! Tags: Python, Rust, ClI Tools, Rewrite - [Stop "Melting" Your Data: Why Polars is the Successor Pandas Needs](https://smiling.dev/blog/stop-melting-your-data-why-polars-is-the-successor-pandas-needs): Something that impressed me this last week is the buzz surrounding a new Python framework called Polars. It has been touted as the successor to Pandas, boasting a better API and significantly faster performance. Plus, it’s written in Rust, which always draws attention nowadays Tags: uv, marimo, python, polars - [The Real Cost of Choosing the Wrong Website Platform](https://smiling.dev/blog/the-real-cost-of-choosing-the-wrong-website-platform): Comparing WordPress, Squarespace, and professional Astro websites. While DIY platforms seem cheaper upfront, the long-term costs in performance, flexibility, and opportunity might surprise you. Tags: Web Development, Astro, WordPress, Squarespace, Static Sites, Performance - [Why I Ditched My Java Backend for Hono and AI Interns.](https://smiling.dev/blog/why-i-ditched-my-java-backend-for-hono-and-ai-interns): A practical look at using AI agents to rewrite a Java Spring Boot backend service into a TypeScript Hono serverless application, achieving better performance with less maintenance overhead. Tags: AI Agents, Spring Boot, Hono, Serverless, AWS Lambda, Backend Development, Rewrite - [Defying airflow to Amazon ECS](https://smiling.dev/blog/airflow-deployment-with-aws-ecs): This was a big writeup of my five days of struggling to deploy airflow to Amazon ECS. May you not have as many difficulties as I did? Tags: Airflow, Python, Apache, ECS - [Learning about Rust Benchmarking with Sudoku from 5 minutes to 17 seconds](https://smiling.dev/blog/rust-benchmarking-sudoku-5min-to-17sec): I'll take you through the process of optimizing a Sudoku solver written in Rust. We'll start with a simple, unoptimized version and apply a series of optimizations that will take the time to solve 100,000 puzzles from over 5 minutes down to just 33 seconds, and 20,000 of the hardest puzzles from over 2 minutes down to just 17 seconds. Tags: Rust, Software Engineering, Criterion, Benchmarking - [Choosing Intentional Media Over Doom Scrolling](https://smiling.dev/blog/choosing-intentional-media-over-doom-scrolling): Being intentional about the sources of media, articles, entertainment with my time has been helping me reflect on the current state of technology and social media apps. I'm wary of the amount of time I use it and the image that I present to kids. Tags: Social Media, Information, AI [View all blog posts](https://smiling.dev/blog)