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Pause

Stops the site's blinking cursor flourishes.

Match device

Follows your OS/browser preferred color scheme. Manually switching the theme turns this off.

Stars

Shows an animated star field behind the site.

Matrix

Hiragana rain falls behind the site. Enabling this turns off Stars.

Burn 404

Lights a Doom-fire effect on the 404 page. Only visible when you actually hit a missing page.

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Alex.

found 3 items tagged with webdev

Blog Posts

Replacing raw admin tokens with hashed credentials, signed sessions, and cleaner middleware boundaries in an Astro-based admin system.

Replacing raw admin tokens with Argon2-backed auth

Replacing raw admin tokens with hashed credentials, signed sessions, and cleaner middleware boundaries in an Astro-based admin system.

#security #authentication #argon2id #web-security #astro #webdev

2026-05-21 • 13 min read

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Guiding Principles

The guiding principles by which I approach how I work on, and write for alexmbugua.me.

#site #webdev #personal #why

March 11, 2026 • 2 min read

Personal Site Checklist

A running checklist of things a personal site should have. Useful as a reference, a goal list, or a mirror.

#technology #webdev #webbed #site

February 17, 2026 • 1 min read