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Vercel Ship 2026 San Francisco: our recap

We spent Thursday, October 15, at Vercel Ship 2026 in San Francisco. Here's how the day went, who we met, and what we appreciated most.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Jono and Sne
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A Victorian tabby cat in a tweed waistcoat and pince-nez at an oak desk, inspecting three headless tailor's mannequins in fine suits through a magnifying glass
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The best headless CMS agencies in 2026, by what you need

Seven headless CMS agencies compared by fit, with sourced budget ranges and how to choose one. We're on the list, and we say so up front.

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Contentful vs Sanity: which one for a marketing site

A dated Sanity vs Contentful comparison for US marketing teams: content modeling, editors, queries, preview, locales, pricing, limits, and when each wins.

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PHP2Shell is why we'd avoid WordPress and build headless on Next.js

PHP2Shell is a 9.2-rated PHP flaw, and WordPress runs on PHP. Why we'd pick a headless CMS on Next.js, and what to patch this week.

Jono Alford
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A Tonkinese cat as a Victorian bank vault keeper, one paw on the wheel of a great iron strongroom door, a ring of brass keys at its waistcoat and a ledger stamped CACHED on a lectern
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Next.js 16.4 for dummies

Cache Components go recommended, ensureStatic locks routes static, and next upgrade --agent hands the bump to your agent. We upgraded the day it dropped.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
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Jono, Sne, Hrithik, and Aayush
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Effect for dummies

A plain-English intro to Effect, the TypeScript library, with small examples for typed errors, retries, timeouts and dependency injection.

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Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
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Sanity Log Analyzer: see where you're blowing your usage

We built a free CLI that turns Sanity's request log export into a report of where your bandwidth goes. Here's what it found on our own starter.

Sne Tripathi
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Sne, Hrithik, Jono, and Chibuike
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I guess we're building knowledge bases now

Sanity shipped Knowledge Bases in Context this month. What a build actually does, the five objections we get on calls, and where a compiled index won't help you.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Tope Akintola
Aayush Bharti
Jono, Sne, Tope, and Aayush
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A Ragdoll cat as a Victorian cinema projectionist, running a brass magic lantern with film reels stacked on the desk
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Mux + Sanity: do you really need a DAM?

Every enterprise headless build hits the DAM question eventually. What Sanity's Media Library and Mux already cover, what a DAM really costs in 2026, and the one case where a dedicated DAM still earns its keep.

Jono Alford
Hrithik Prasad
Aayush Bharti
Sne Tripathi
Jono, Hrithik, Aayush, and Sne
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Never "design" an OG again

How to render 1200x630, 1080x1080, and 1080x1350 social images from one next/og template in turbo-start-sanity, with real render timings.

Jono Alford
Tope Akintola
Jono and Tope
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