Performance is usually framed as a tradeoff. More features cost more compute. More dynamic content costs more latency. More personalisation costs more infrastructure. Static sites invert this framing. The most performant architecture is also the simplest one.
Content management systems typically implement version history as a database feature. WordPress stores post revisions as additional rows. Ghost…
In a traditional CMS, publishing is a button. The content exists in a database in draft state. Clicking publish changes a field. The post is live…
RSS was declared dead several times in the decade following Google Reader's shutdown in 2013. The declaration was premature. The protocol never…
There is a version of minimal tooling that is ascetic for its own sake — a refusal of complexity as a philosophical position. This is not that…
Pagination is a solved problem that publishing systems continue to solve badly. The common failure mode is pagination without context — previous and…