Asking Cursor to Review My Blog for Performance

Last week I decided to try something interesting. I opened my blog up in Cursor and asked for a basic performance review. That seems like a no-brainer, but keep in mind, my blog's source code clocks in at near seven thousand files (ignoring node_modules of course), so this wasn't some small request. My blog is built with the Eleventy static site generator. It's a mix of JavaScript and Markdown primarily, with a huge portion of the codebase being Markdown and not 'code' per se, but me rambling on about cats and Star Wars. There's also Liquid templates which are parsed into HTML by a JavaScript library. But that doesn't quite tell the whole story. In Eleventy, when converting my Markdown into HTML, it also applies the Liquid template syntax to Markdown which means my blog posts can actually be dynamic, at build time anyway. This impacts how fast the site builds in ways I can completely forget about down the road. This is why I let Cursor look over the entire code base instead of…