Content tagged with "blog"
A canonical duplication error triggered a full SEO audit. Missing sitemaps, absent structured data, no OG images for TILs — a record of pitfalls found and fixed on a Next.js App Router site with locale routing.
Designed a dedicated style guide for the TIL (Today I Learned) section, separate from blog posts. The core philosophy: lower the barrier to write, raise the value to read. Covers the boundary with blog posts, title patterns, and tone calibration.
After writing 8 posts, I codified the implicit rules into a style guide. The central design principle: optimize for the reader's time. Covers title format, structure, code density, and closing sections with the reasoning behind each rule.
A simple metadata-based scoring algorithm that surfaces related articles using shared categories and tags. No ML, no full-text search — just weighted scores and existing helper functions.
Individual category and tag pages existed, but there was no way to browse them all. The interesting part: zero new data-layer code was needed — existing helper functions composed directly into new pages.
A deep dive into the architecture behind shinyaz.com — why I chose Velite over Contentlayer, how I handle bilingual content without an i18n library, and the design decisions behind a minimal, monochrome developer blog.