July 26, 2026
Behind The Build
Building the Toolkit Behind Small Factory 5
A tour of the internal Python tooling that runs Small Factory 5: one deliberate dependency, real money spent on real API calls, and the bugs that only showed up once real data hit it.
July 19, 2026
Behind The Build
We Ran Our Own Audit
A real before-and-after from grading our own site with an independent tool, how the Citability Index tracker got built from scratch, and a real page review example.
July 9, 2026
Behind The Build
Rebuilding smallfactory5.com: Two Bugs That Would Have Shipped Silently
A behind-the-scenes migration of this site to Astro and Vercel, and the two invisible failures that never threw an error: a missing homepage, a dead stylesheet.