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Building this site
A short tour of the stack behind this website: Payload CMS, Next.js and a deliberately small design system.
This site runs on Payload CMS and Next.js, with content stored in MongoDB. The frontend is plain Tailwind and a handful of components.
Why Payload
I wanted to own my content and my data, with a real admin and a typed API — without running a heavy CMS.