Priya Raman
•Jul 14, 2026
A content model earns its keep by what it refuses to store, not by what it can hold. Notes on referential integrity, and the guarantees you give up the moment a reference becomes a string in a text column.
Blog Post about Tooling
Editors, build pipelines, and the small programs that sit between writing something and shipping it.
Why this section exists
Tooling is where preference and evidence get confused most often. A workflow that feels good after an afternoon can turn out to be the reason a project stalls six months later, and the reverse happens just as much.
These posts try to separate the two: what a tool actually guarantees, versus what it merely makes pleasant.
Recurring themes
- Authoring surfaces, and the price of each one
- Static builds, deploy triggers, and keeping the loop short
- Dependencies as a long-term liability rather than a one-time install
- Small scripts that replace large systems