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On CMS development, placeholder content strategy, WordPress theming, Storybook testing, and lessons from building production web apps.

  1. 5 min read

    Why Lorem Ipsum Exists (and When to Use Real Copy Instead)

    Lorem ipsum comes from a scrambled line of Cicero, not random noise. Here's where it actually came from, and the specific cases where real or realistic copy serves you better.

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  2. 6 min read

    Testing Email Templates with Realistic Placeholder HTML

    Email clients render HTML nothing like a browser does. A checklist for stress-testing MJML and React Email templates with the content shapes that actually break them.

    EmailMJMLTesting
  3. 7 min read

    Contentful vs. Sanity vs. Payload: How Each Structures Rich Text

    Three headless CMS platforms, three different rich-text document shapes. A side-by-side reference for anyone building a renderer against more than one of them.

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  4. 5 min read

    A Practical Checklist for Placeholder Content in Design Systems

    Twelve content shapes worth testing before you ship a component to your design system, and why most teams only ever check three of them.

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  5. 6 min read

    Why Lorem Ipsum Fails Your CMS Layouts

    Lorem ipsum tests one thing: that your paragraph tag renders. Real editorial content is structurally complex, and every element your editors can produce is a potential breakage point.

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  6. 5 min read

    Testing WordPress Themes with Realistic Content

    Most WordPress theme developers still test with a single Lorem Ipsum post. The Gutenberg era means that approach misses most of what editors actually produce.

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  7. 5 min read

    Placeholder Content in Storybook: Stop Using Toy Data

    Stories written with single-line strings and two-word labels build false confidence. Here's how to use realistic fixture content to catch the bugs that actually reach production.

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  8. 7 min read

    What Your Headless CMS Rich-Text Renderer Is Missing

    Contentful Rich Text and Sanity Portable Text look simple. They're not. Here are the node types and edge cases most renderers quietly skip until an editor finds them in production.

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