Practical writing on AI-powered web apps, headless CMS architecture, and the engineering discipline that keeps software reliable long after launch.
Shipping an AI feature is not about the model. It is a typed contract at the boundary, a human on the irreversible step, and a validator that fails loud. From a CMS draft-gate to commerce agents, the guardrails are the product.
Read moreA walkthrough of the small script I use to draft posts. A topic or a JSON spec goes in, typed blocks become Contentful rich text, an em-dash guard and a few checks run first, and the entry always lands unpublished so I publish it by hand.
Read moreA page builder is a deal you make with your future self. How I built one on Contentful and Next.js: a page as an ordered list of sections, a GraphQL union I validate hardest, a dispatch that skips unknown sections loudly, and one flatten transform at the edge.
Read moreFor a stretch my site served one page to every visitor on a green build, because the CMS failed silently into hardcoded defaults. How I made fallbacks loud: schema validation at the boundary, a prebuild content-health gate, and the same discipline guards AI output.
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