Product blog
Product blog
Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
Topic
ReadField guide · 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.
- Autonomous zones vs hard gates
- Reversibility decides the line
- The build as a tireless reviewer
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- Every push gets a preview URL
- Promote to production in a click
- Instant rollback to any prior deploy
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- Expand → plan → code
- The planning pass is non-negotiable
- Where rework actually comes from
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- OG images generated on demand
- Rendered at the edge per page
- No static asset to maintain
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- One App Router project
- components/sections pattern
- Shared layout, metadata, sitemap
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- IndexedDB local saves
- Accounts add cross-device durability
- Match saving to the product
Novus Stream Solutions
ReadField guide · 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.
- No CMS, no database
- Posts are typed TS objects
- Content ships with the code
Engineering
ReadField guide · 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.
- A union type for doc links
- Structured sections, not raw HTML
- Broken content = build failure
Engineering
ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
Shipping a model registry you can trust: auditing against Hugging Face
An engineering note on auditing an AI model registry for honesty — verified IDs, real sizes and licenses, and classical baselines labelled as such.
- Audited vs HF API + Transformers.js v3
- Five unverified IDs replaced
- Classical baselines labelled honestly
Stack & engineering