<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jewel Farazi — Blog</title><description>Jewel Farazi — Senior Software Developer. Full-stack web applications from interface to server, built since 2009 and tuned long after launch.</description><link>https://jewelfarazi.me/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Why I rebuilt my site as static files</title><link>https://jewelfarazi.me/blog/hello/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jewelfarazi.me/blog/hello/</guid><description>After years of running WordPress on cPanel, I moved my personal site to a static build. Here is the reasoning and what the tradeoffs actually are.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>astro</category><category>hosting</category></item><item><title>Finding the query that is actually slow</title><link>https://jewelfarazi.me/blog/mysql-slow-query/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jewelfarazi.me/blog/mysql-slow-query/</guid><description>A short, repeatable process for tracking down the real bottleneck in a MySQL-backed app, instead of guessing at indexes.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mysql</category><category>performance</category></item></channel></rss>