Why our blog ships from TypeScript and not a CMS

This blog you are reading lives in a TypeScript file. Each post is an object in an array, with a slug and a title and a body string. There is no CMS, no Markdown loader, no MDX pipeline, no headless contentful sanity datocms strapi.

This is intentional, for now. We post about once a month. Adding a CMS would mean adding a dependency, a build step, an editor login, a content review flow, and a place where things go stale. For ten posts a year, none of that earns its keep.

The line we will cross when this changes: when more than one person is writing weekly. At that point we will add Supabase as the backend, build a thin admin, and migrate the array. The blog post you are reading will be the last one shipped from a TypeScript file. Probably.