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10 articles tagged development.

7 min read

A marketing site with no CMS: MDX, git and a build pipeline

No database, no admin panel, no plugin updates. Content is MDX in the repo, frontmatter is a Zod schema that fails the build, review is a pull request — and publishing is a merge. The architecture behind this website, and the case where you shouldn't copy it.

nextjsarchitecturedevelopmentjamstack
8 min read

Leaving Radix for Base UI: a component migration story

When your primitive library changes direction, you migrate deliberately. Mapping Radix patterns onto Base UI, the accessibility differences that surprised us, and the codemod that did the boring three quarters.

reactfrontenddevelopment
7 min read

TanStack Start for internal tools: when you don't need Next.js

Every custom build ships two frontends — the one your customers see and the one only your client's own staff opens. The first earns Next.js. The second is usually paying a tax for machinery it never uses.

reacttanstacknextjsarchitecturedevelopment
6 min read

Your AI assistant has amnesia: adding a memory layer with mem0

Every session starts from zero: the same stack briefing, the same corrections, the same tokens burned re-explaining decisions you made months ago. mem0 gives AI development a persistent memory — what it actually does, the numbers behind it, and why we self-host it on our own cluster.

aidevelopmentdevops
7 min read

Postgres is enough: queues, search and pub/sub without five more containers

Before a two-developer project grows a Redis, a RabbitMQ and an Elasticsearch, look at what the database you already run can do. SKIP LOCKED queues, tsvector search, LISTEN/NOTIFY — and the measured signals that tell you when to graduate.

postgresqlarchitecturedevelopmentperformance