https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog Engineering notes by Amine El Moumen — real decisions made on this project, written up as they happened. en https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/precompiling-i18n-messages https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/precompiling-i18n-messages Adding next-intl fixed one problem and quietly created another: a client-side ICU parser shipping to every visitor. Here's how I measured and removed it. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/next-intl-vs-hand-rolled-i18n https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/next-intl-vs-hand-rolled-i18n Every earlier phase of this project added zero dependencies. Adding one for locale routing needed a real reason, not just convenience. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/lighthouse-89-cold-start-not-a-regression https://amineelmoumen.dev/blog/lighthouse-89-cold-start-not-a-regression Performance dropped from a 93+ baseline to 89 right after a deploy. The instinct is to revert. Here's why I ran it twice more instead. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT