Most content management systems solve problems you do not have. Databases, admin panels, user authentication, plugin ecosystems — infrastructure that exists to support infrastructure. Flatpack takes the opposite position: a publishing system reducible to a folder of Markdown…
The default assumption in publishing infrastructure is that content requires a database. WordPress, Ghost, Drupal — every major CMS reaches for SQL…
Every managed publishing platform makes the same implicit offer: we will handle the infrastructure if you accept our constraints. The constraints are…
Cloudflare Pages occupies an unusual position in the hosting landscape. It is a CDN-native static host with a build pipeline, a generous free tier…
Performance is usually framed as a tradeoff. More features cost more compute. More dynamic content costs more latency. More personalisation costs…
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…