Articles
Notes from the workshop.
Retrospectives, framework opinions, and lessons from real engagements. Newest first.
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If you came from Jekyll or Gatsby, you want a git-based CMS
Why a git-based CMS is the natural successor to Jekyll or Gatsby — your content stays as markdown in the repo, the editor just sits on top. Plus what I found running Decap and Sveltia side-by-side.
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My first RAG, part 2: I built generation. One endpoint sang. The other lied about people needing the bathroom.
Week two of the RAG project — added /summarize and /answer on top of retrieval. /summarize was the surprise hit. /answer had a polite refusal problem and then a stranger one. Notes from the workbench.
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My first RAG
From zero Python service experience and zero RAG knowledge to a working YouTube transcript retrieval pipeline. The mental shifts, the decisions, and the gotchas that surprised me.
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Hosting on AWS, cloudfront and ALIAS records (and BAD GoDaddy)
Hosting on AWS, cloudfront and ALIAS records (and BAD GoDaddy)
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Issues with wordpress search
Wordpress search is not very good. Relevanssi is a very good plugin.
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Migrating from Next.js to Astro
Three years after migrating to Next.js, I migrated off it. Why I left, what the move to Astro looked like, and the numbers from this site's rebuild.
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Next js - Is it getting just too hard to use?
I used to write React.js. It was not easy at the beginning but eventually, I learnt the React's ways and it made alot of sense. I used to use Gatsby, some of the set up was a bit too
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Migrating from Gatsby to Next.js
Reflections from leaving Gatsby for Next.js in early 2023 — what worked, what didn't, and what the migration actually cost.