From our projects
Release notes and engineering write-ups published across the Tradik projects. Every headline opens the original article on the site that wrote it.
We publish in more than one place. SSG has its own site with its own blog. MDDB has another. Then there is tradik.com, which is where someone actually lands when they want to know what we have been…
tradik.com ran on Next.js with output: 'export'. That produced a static site, and everything about it was reasonable in isolation. Taken together it was a React toolchain, a node_modules tree of several hundred packages and a build step, all to publish nine pages that do not change between deploys.
The question was simple: how do we make publishing faster? My instincts fired off the usual list — better caching, tighter memory layout, maybe some CPU architecture tricks. Profile-guided…
There are two places you can put an AI call on a website: in the visitor's browser, or in your build. Almost everyone reaches for the first — a widget that calls an API on page load — and almost…
Everyone who has ever automated "tweet when I publish" has, at least once, tweeted the same post three times — because the build ran three times. That failure mode is the entire design problem, and…
This is the hands-on companion to AI in Your Content. That post argues why build-time AI beats a browser widget; this one gets you from zero to a working [ai …] in about five minutes.
A "related articles" block is the cheapest way to keep a reader on your site: they finished one thing, here are five more they'll probably like. The trick is that "probably like" has three very…
The last two releases were about speed and structure. 1.8.16 is about the edges of publishing — the small jobs around a post that you either do by hand every time or wire up a SaaS for: summarising…
Here's a workflow that used to require careful copy-pasting: you tell an AI assistant "make the hero section two-column and move the tag list under the title", it suggests a diff, you apply it, you…
There's a decade of knowledge sitting in your WordPress. Product announcements, how-to guides, changelogs, that one post from 2019 that still answers half of your support tickets. And when you plug an AI agent into your company, the first thing it asks is, effectively: where's the knowledge? The MDD
Here is a confession. Until this release, an SSG build did everything one thing at a time. Convert an image, then the next, then the next. On a text-only site you never notice — the whole thing is…
Most of what a static site generator does is for people: render the Markdown, style the page, ship the HTML. But a page has other readers you never think about — the scraper that builds a link…
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