Intentional Engineering in the Age of AI
Reflecting on why building a personal blog as a production-grade system matters in an era where AI makes it easy to skip the thinking process.
Read Part 1A 10-part series on Building a Production-Grade Blog.
Reflecting on why building a personal blog as a production-grade system matters in an era where AI makes it easy to skip the thinking process.
Read Part 1Why choosing a framework should be the final step in designing a system, even for a personal blog.
Read Part 2Why treating your writing as a structured data source is the key to building a maintainable digital garden.
Read Part 3Why automation is more about psychological safety than technical speed, even for a simple static site.
Read Part 4Why using cloud primitives directly provides a better foundation for ownership and security than 'magic' hosting platforms.
Read Part 5Why declarative infrastructure is valuable for small systems, and how Terraform acts as executable documentation for this blog.
Read Part 6Why security is about explicit intent rather than system size, and how to implement robust boundaries without enterprise complexity.
Read Part 7Why automated guardrails for your writing prevent silent rot and free you to focus on the craft of thinking.
Read Part 8How structured navigation and metadata allow a digital garden to evolve without needing to predict its future.
Read Part 9A pragmatic look at what worked, what was overkill, and what I would do differently if I were starting again.
Read Part 10