Continuations 2026/33: Commercial kitchen

This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll be able to pay an honorarium to our active maintainers.The response so far has been encouraging! We got a slew of new individual sponsors (thank you everyone!) and that’s given us some good initial progress towards that goal. Look out for tomorrow’s post on the Hanakai site for more on this, including first featured Q&A.One thing that would really move the needle for us is finding a few more businesses to come on board. If anyone out there has ideas about this, please get in touch! While working on the announcement, I noticed our site builds were a little too slow. So I upgraded the site to Hanami 3.0 (which itself brought improvements), and made CI tweaks to improve deploy speed. Got down from over 5 minutes to under 2! The next will require parallelising the crawl that builds the static site, but I’ll save that as a treat for the…