Research
Notes from production.
What we learn operating these systems, written down. No thought leadership — operating notes.
When building gets cheap, judgment gets expensive
When building gets cheap, judgment gets expensive. Why knowing what to build — and what not to — became the core engineering discipline.
Astro 6 and the edge-native CMS
EmDash puts the CMS inside the Worker. What that inversion means for performance, content modeling, and the end of the WordPress hosting tier.
Why media companies are building first-party ad platforms
The economics and architecture of serving your own ads: what AdOS-style infrastructure costs, what it returns, and when it's wrong.
Migrating WordPress to the edge without stopping the newsroom
A working migration pattern for high-traffic publishers: headless delivery first, editorial workflow preserved, the monolith retired in slices.
Building agent systems on Cloudflare Workers
What we learned running large fleets of specialized workers in production: decomposition, coordination, state, and the failure modes nobody writes about.