Engineering
Deep dives on architecture, performance, and the decisions behind our technical stack.
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We stripped file uploads from the entire release pipeline, rebuilt the admin panel with a 3-tab editor, added Zustand draft persistence, and finally made the changelog page show actual content.
We replaced every React Native StyleSheet in the app with Tailwind CSS classes. The migration touched 162 components, deleted our entire theming system, and unified our design language across platforms.
The mega-PR that restructured our 2-step onboarding into a 4-step experience, added 24 rate limit definitions across the entire backend, and squashed every notification center bug we'd been ignoring.
How we built a multi-section blog (Blog + Engineering) with independent content, themes, and comment policies — all powered by one shared factory pattern.
A deep dive into why we chose Convex as our backend and how its reactive query model eliminates an entire class of state management bugs.
We added threaded comments, emoji reactions, and hCaptcha verification to the Lumo blog. Here's why bot protection was the first feature we built, not the last.