Insights & hot takes

Thoughts on content systems, frontend architecture, and the tools we use daily. Occasionally opinionated.




A Victorian cat gallery curator wearing a monocle and velvet coat, standing in a grand portrait hall filled with framed paintings of different cats
21 min read

Ode to cats

Every blog post on this site has a Victorian cat hero image generated by AI. Here's every single one, in full colour, from the earliest originals to today.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Hrithik Prasad
Aayush Bharti
Jono, Sne, Hrithik, and Aayush
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A Victorian cat shopkeeper behind an ornate counter with a headless mannequin in the background
17 min read

Shopify headless: should you actually build one?

Headless Shopify sounds great until you see the bill. We break down when it makes sense, when it doesn't, and what it actually costs across vanilla Shopify, custom themes, Hydrogen, and Next.js builds.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Jono and Sne
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A Victorian couple of cats in Sunday best clothes posing for a portrait
11 min read

Clean your GROQ

How to structure GROQ queries that stay readable as your Sanity project grows. Fragment-based patterns with code examples.

Jono Alford
Hrithik Prasad
Sne Tripathi
Jono, Hrithik, and Sne
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A Victorian-era cat wearing a Gojo Satoru blindfold with one glowing blue eye peeking out, surrounded by blue cursed energy flames
17 min read

Why we built Satoru, our background coding agent

How we built Satoru, a sandboxed background coding agent powered by Cloudflare Durable Objects and Modal to handle retainer backlogs across client codebases.

Jono Alford
Hrithik Prasad
Aayush Bharti
Sne Tripathi
Jono, Hrithik, Aayush, and Sne
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A Victorian fat cat wearing a ghost sheet veil with big dark eyes and a bow, in a spooky candlelit parlor, rendered in halftone grayscale
12 min read

We exorcised Ghost CMS from CoinTracker's content stack

Another story of a blog turning into a full content platform and Ghost quietly tapping out halfway through.

Hrithik Prasad
Sne Tripathi
Jono Alford
Hrithik, Sne, and Jono
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A Victorian cat night watchman holding a lantern and keys, standing guard at a dark doorway
6 min read

React Server Components CVE-2026-23864: What you need to know

A high-severity DoS vulnerability is affecting Next.js 13-16 and other RSC frameworks. Here's how to fix it fast.

Jono Alford
Jono
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Next.js 16.1 for dummies
7 min read

Next.js 16.1 for dummies

Turbopack caching goes stable, a new bundle analyzer, and 20MB lighter installs. The boring release that makes everything faster.

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Jono and Sne
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A distinguished Victorian cat in a military coat surveying the state of content management
12 min read

The state of headless CMS

By the time you read this, another CMS will have pivoted to AI, announced a beta, and promised to 'reimagine how teams create.' Keep up.

Sne Tripathi
Jenil Thummar
Jono Alford
Sne, Jenil, and Jono
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Ship AI, AI, AI
11 min read

Ship AI, AI, AI

Developers, developers, developers, it's time to ship

Jono Alford
Sne Tripathi
Jono and Sne
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