<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Lumivara Forge — Blog</title><description>Field notes on launching and running your website.</description><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/</link><language>en-ca</language><item><title>Why we build Forge sites on Astro</title><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/why-we-build-on-astro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/why-we-build-on-astro/</guid><description>Islands architecture, zero-JS by default, and a content layer that treats Markdown as a database. Here&apos;s why every Forge site ships on Astro.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering</category><category>astro</category><category>performance</category><category>architecture</category></item><item><title>Multi-vendor AI routing, and why your backlog never stalls</title><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/multi-vendor-ai-routing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/multi-vendor-ai-routing/</guid><description>Claude does the work — but when it&apos;s rate-limited, the loop falls back to OpenAI and Gemini. Here&apos;s how config-driven routing keeps sites shipping.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering</category><category>ai</category><category>reliability</category><category>routing</category></item><item><title>Config-driven marketing sites — change the config, not the components</title><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/config-driven-marketing-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/config-driven-marketing-sites/</guid><description>A rebrand should be one file, not a week. How Forge models an entire business in a single typed config so the components never need to change.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Playbooks</category><category>architecture</category><category>content</category><category>branding</category></item><item><title>Local SEO that actually ranks — JSON-LD, llms.txt, and the boring basics</title><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/local-seo-that-ranks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/local-seo-that-ranks/</guid><description>Structured data, a correct sitemap, an llms.txt for the agents, and NAP consistency. The unglamorous checklist that gets local businesses found.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Playbooks</category><category>seo</category><category>local</category><category>structured-data</category></item><item><title>Designing for 360px first</title><link>https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/designing-for-360px/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lumivara-forge.com/blog/designing-for-360px/</guid><description>Most visitors arrive on a small phone in bright sunlight with one thumb. Here&apos;s how Forge&apos;s design system starts there and scales up.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product</category><category>design</category><category>accessibility</category><category>mobile</category></item></channel></rss>