Rethinking content pipelines

I‘ve written a lot about content creation workflows over the years. I‘ve been busy building some I think interesting things in that space the past few months. This post is my first attempt to describe the server component of my new publishing software. If you have ever built a content-heavy site, whether it is a tech blog, documentation hub, or a machine learning dataset repository, you have probably bumped up against the same frustrating trade-off. Traditional CMSs feel clunky and locked-in, while custom Git workflows can quickly turn into a brittle mess of custom scripts. I wanted something better: a publishing workflow that treats non-code content as first-class filesystem assets, handles release schedules intelligently, and stays completely decoupled from vendor lock-in. To solve this, I have been building a provider-agnostic publishing server designed to orchestrate the entire content lifecycle. While my client tool makes it simple to author and render content locally, the server…