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Adventures in localisation: Bloggst du gerne?
Localisation from English to German, how difficult can it be? Spinning up a proof of concept with Contentful and Claude.
Blogging
The blog itself. What shipped, what it taught, and what comes next.
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BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
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The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
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How to stop worrying about content tagging
It's boring and easy to neglect, but content tagging still has a purpose. How I set up and maintain tags for my content library.
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Static site search, like the index in a reference book
Search that works like the index at the back of a reference book: compile in advance, and consult it yourself rather than pester a librarian.
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A hard day’s light: Adding a snazzy dark mode to the site
What it takes to give a site a dark mode, how your device decides which mode you can see, and why it's more complicated than inverting a colour palette.
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Automated backups with Contentful & GitHub Actions
Traipsing through the process of setting up automated backups in Contentful, then verifying it works by restoring content to a fresh space.
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Kinds of blue: Design tokens for contrast and accessibility
I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let's talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility.
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Pay it forward: Fork this blog template and make it yours
The code behind this site is now a template you can clone and deploy for yourself. A sneaky peek at the journey from a public repo to a forkable template.
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Maintaining an llms.txt that nobody's reading
This site had an llms.txt that went stale in just over a week. Easy enough to fix, but what's the point of maintaining them if they're not being read?
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Structuring content like a trail of breadcrumbs
A deep dive into pagination, breadcrumbs, category and author pages, and sitemap maintenance. All this, and content modelling too!
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Meandering off the path, shipping minor upgrades
A quick roundup of four reading-experience improvements, shipped while clearing the decks for bigger changes. Scope got creeped, but what are ya gonna do?
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When the prompt becomes a creative brief
Writing a prompt that yields a specific image is closer to art direction than to drawing. But there are legal and ethical considerations, too.
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Publish a blog post without opening the CMS?
Behold! The future! Model Context Protocol is a newish AI standard that can make a content platform addressable through a chat interface.
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The Blogger's Blueprint
A public wish list of twelve upgrades for this blog, from a favicon to pagination, and a running record of which ones got done and which got dropped.
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Rebuilding this site with Claude as my copilot
Templates are starting points. If you're going to run a blog on someone else's code, you have to plan for the day you'll need to take it over.
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Building blocks for building blogs
Documenting the technologies and tools behind this blog. What began as a fork-it-and-go template has grown into something more substantial.
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