Articles

5 articles on building, breaking and fixing things on the web.

Career5 min read

Shipping a Client Platform: Four Codebases, One Product

A WhatsApp business platform delivered for a client — a dashboard, an API, a marketing site and a mobile app. What that actually takes, and the parts that are nothing to do with writing software.

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Architecture5 min read

SK Blog — Rebuilding This Site After Its Backend Died

This blog ran on headless WordPress until the WordPress disappeared. Rebuilding it on Astro cut an article page from about 87 KB of JavaScript to 4 KB — and turned it into a small community platform along the way.

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Architecture5 min read

Turning WhatsApp Into a Shared Team Inbox

Most small businesses run sales on one WhatsApp number and one phone. Building a CRM around that means solving a problem the app itself was never designed for.

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