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Stack & engineering
The locked, opinionated stack behind the Novus ecosystem and how it is built — code-as-content architecture, type-safe content, edge rendering, and the AI-assisted engineering workflow that ships it solo.
19 articles
Stack & engineering · Jun 4, 2026
The approver model: running a build pipeline where AI writes and you review
The operating model for one person directing AI execution: what the human keeps, what the agent takes, and how to keep the review meaningful.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 4, 2026
Guardrails and human review: where we let the agent run and where we don't
A practical map of where AI agents operate autonomously and where a human checkpoint is non-negotiable, and the reasoning behind each boundary.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 3, 2026
Shipping on Vercel solo: the deploy and preview workflow that keeps overhead near zero
The deploy, preview, and rollback loop that removes the ops tax from running multiple apps as a solo operator.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 3, 2026
Our three-mode workflow: prompt expansion → planning → coding (and why we never skip the middle)
Why the planning pass between understanding a request and writing code is the step that determines whether AI-assisted development produces something maintainable.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 2, 2026
Generating social share images at the edge
How an edge image route turns the typed post data into a per-page share card automatically, and why dynamic beats static here.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 2, 2026
One Next.js app, many sections: routing a hub-and-spoke portfolio from a single codebase
How a single App Router codebase serves an entire multi-product hub, and why that beats a constellation of separate apps when one person maintains it.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 2, 2026
Durable saves without a backend war: IndexedDB, account sync, and when you finally add login
An engineering field note on persistence for browser tools: in-memory loss, local IndexedDB saves, the jump to account-backed durability, and matching the saving model to the product rather than the fashion.
Novus Stream Solutions
Stack & engineering · Jun 1, 2026
Code-as-content: why our blog is hundreds of TypeScript objects, not a CMS
The case for treating content as code — version-controlled, type-checked, deployed with the app — instead of running a content management system.
Engineering
Stack & engineering · Jun 1, 2026
Type-safe content: how a DocSlug union and structured sections stop broken posts
How a few lines of TypeScript types make broken links and malformed posts impossible to ship, not just unlikely.
Engineering