Insights & Guides
Technical notes, tutorials, and thought leadership on headless architecture and modern web development.
Building a Booking System Into a Headless CMS
How I added a full appointment booking system to HD CMS — slot generation, availability APIs, custom intake forms, deposit tracking, and push notifications. Built for real service businesses, not demos.
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Why I Stopped Making Developer Videos — And Why I'm Coming Back in 2026
AI didn't kill development content. It killed shallow explanations. Here's why I'm returning with a different approach.
Read moreAdding Ecommerce to a Headless CMS Without the Bloat
How Commerce Lite adds product catalogues, Stripe checkout, and order management to HD CMS for £10/month — without turning it into Shopify.
Read moreAdding Ecommerce to a Headless CMS Without the Bloat
How Commerce Lite adds product catalogues, Stripe checkout, and order management to HD CMS for £10/month — without turning it into Shopify.
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From Magento to Headless: What Legacy Platforms Still Teach Us
Modern stacks often forget the hard lessons that legacy platforms learned through years of production use. Here's what still applies.
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Headless Is Not Automatically Faster (And Other Myths)
The performance benefits of headless architecture are real — but they're not automatic. Bad implementation kills any theoretical advantage.
Read moreHeadless Is Not Automatically Faster (And Other Myths)
The performance benefits of headless architecture are real — but they're not automatic. Bad implementation kills any theoretical advantage.
Read moreHow HD CMS Caches API Responses at the Edge
Every public API endpoint in HD CMS is edge-cached with s-maxage, stale-while-revalidate, and site-scoped cache tags. Here's how it works and how content stays fresh.
Read moreHow HD CMS Caches API Responses at the Edge
Every public API endpoint in HD CMS is edge-cached with s-maxage, stale-while-revalidate, and site-scoped cache tags. Here's how it works and how content stays fresh.
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How I Actually Structure a Nuxt + API + CMS Stack for Clients
A practical, high-level view of how I think about architecture for client projects. No client names, just patterns that work.
Read moreHow HD CMS Deploys Static Sites to Vercel
Why every HD CMS website is a static site deployed to Vercel's edge network — and how content changes trigger rebuilds from the CMS admin panel.
Read moreHow HD CMS Deploys Static Sites to Vercel
Why every HD CMS website is a static site deployed to Vercel's edge network — and how content changes trigger rebuilds from the CMS admin panel.
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