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Deployment Cursor

How to Deploy Your Cursor App to Production: A Practical Guide

Built an app with Cursor AI? Here's how to deploy it to production - covering hosting options, environment setup, and common deployment mistakes to avoid.

6 min read
Deployment Checklist

The Startup Deployment Checklist: Everything to Verify Before You Go Live

A practical deployment checklist for startup founders. Covers environment variables, database setup, DNS, SSL, and the common mistakes that kill first deployments.

6 min read
Hosting Startups

Vercel vs DigitalOcean for Startups: An Honest Cost and Complexity Comparison

Choosing between Vercel and DigitalOcean for your startup? Here's a practical comparison covering costs, complexity, and when each makes sense.

7 min read
Statamic Debugging

Why Your Statamic Images Return NULL (And the Fix That Took Me Way Too Long to Find)

You've uploaded your images. The files exist. Glide is configured. But your templates return nothing. Here's the embarrassingly simple fix for the assets:: prefix gotcha.

4 min read
Statamic Tutorial

Statamic Global Sets: When global: Works and When It Doesn't

You've set up a global set in Statamic and you're trying to access it with global: prefix. Nothing renders. Here's why the global: prefix only works for the default global set.

5 min read
Statamic Antlers

The Antlers Gotcha That Puts Your Image URL as Text Above Your Image

You check the frontend and there's your image... with its full URL printed as text directly above it. Here's why Antlers tag pair syntax causes URL bleed for single assets.

4 min read
Statamic Laravel

Statamic URLs Showing Server IP Instead of Your Domain? Here's the Fix

Your sitemap shows internal IPs, asset URLs use HTTP instead of HTTPS, and canonical tags are wrong. If you're behind RunCloud or Cloudflare, this is a trusted proxies issue.

6 min read
Tailwind Statamic

Why Your Tailwind Classes Work Locally But Disappear in Production (Statamic Edition)

Works perfectly in development. Deploy to production and the styles are gone. Here's why Tailwind's static analysis misses classes in Antlers templates and how to fix it.

5 min read

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