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24 Days, ~1,250 Commits: What the Agents Got Right and Wrong
A honest retro on building this blog with agents in the loop — where they saved days, where they wandered, and the guardrails that made the speed safe to keep.
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This Blog Was a Weekend Idea
How an idea over coffee became a production blog in 24 days and ~1,250 commits, built mostly by AI agents — with a map to every post that tells the story.
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Statically Rendered, Instantly Fresh
Static pages that update the moment I publish. How a Sanity webhook triggers on-demand revalidation so a fully static Next.js site never serves stale content.
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SEO That Generates Itself
No hand-written meta tags, ever. How titles, Open Graph, sitemap and RSS all fall out of the same schema the posts already use — generated, not maintained.
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Shipping Heroes Without a Designer
Every post needs a hero image and I'm not an illustrator. How a script rendered decent heroes from HTML — and why that's a placeholder, not the finish line.
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Styling at Speed: Tailwind v4 With an Agent
Tailwind v4 moved config into CSS, and that made an agent a far better collaborator. How design tokens in one @theme block kept the whole site consistent.
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Rendering Portable Text in Next.js 16
Portable Text is just JSON until you render it. How I mapped Sanity's block format to React components — headings, links, and real code blocks — in the App Router.
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