3 parts · all series
The pretend server - part 1 of 3
Sat Oct 10 2026
This blog is static files on the free Azure Static Web Apps plan, yet posts go live on schedule and the vote buttons remember your click. The server is a GitHub Actions job that runs once a day, and your browser covers for it in between.
The pretend server - part 2 of 3
Sat Oct 17 2026
How the astro-votes package turns a like button into analytics events, a nightly sync, and a JSON file the build reads. Plus what it takes to use it with something other than Umami.
The pretend server - part 3 of 3
Sat Oct 24 2026
The vote counts on this blog only change once a day, but your own click shows straight away and never counts twice. Three fields in localStorage and one timestamp in the HTML do it.
