A field guide to revalidation
On-demand, time-based, and tag-based revalidation compared, with the failure modes of each written down.
- Headless delivery
- Performance
Resources
12 resources
Alt text at scale
A workflow for keeping image descriptions present and useful across thousands of items, and what to do about the backlog.
- Accessibility
- Editorial workflow
One model, five kinds of content
A fictional team weighs a post type per content kind against one type with a kind taxonomy, and what changed their minds.
- Content modelling
The editor is the customer
A conversation about building publishing tools for the people who use them every day, not the people who sign off on them.
- Editorial workflow
Caching a content API
Where to cache between a CMS and a front end, how long, and how to invalidate on publish without a stale-page incident.
- Headless delivery
- Performance
Accessible cards and lists
Patterns for card grids and filter controls that work with a keyboard and a screen reader, with the mistakes most often found in audits.
- Accessibility
Taxonomies versus fields
When a property of a thing should be a term and when it should be a field, with the query shapes each one makes cheap or expensive.
- Content modelling
A library relaunch in six weeks
How a fictional publisher moved a filterable library to a headless front end while editors kept publishing throughout.
- Editorial workflow
- Headless delivery
Measuring what readers feel
Two engineers talk through the field metrics that track with reader frustration and the lab numbers that do not.
- Performance
Editorial review without the bottleneck
A recorded session on review queues, roles, and the handful of statuses a small team actually needs.
- Editorial workflow
The headless handbook
A short guide to running a CMS and a front end as separate systems: what each owns, how they talk, and where the seams tend to leak.
- Headless delivery
Modelling content for more than one screen
Why a content model built around fields rather than layouts survives a redesign, with a worked example of splitting a landing page into reusable parts.
- Content modelling
- Headless delivery