I’m Emiliano Pisu, your friendly neighborhood Design Engineer. Throughout my career, driven by my coding addiction, I’ve always stayed up to date with software development and related trends, focusing on UI, UX, Accessibility, Responsiveness, Compatibility, Scalability, and Maintainability. My main goal is to build accessible and pixel-perfect user interfaces that enhance the user experience. In conclusion, I’m the right person if you need a bridge between Design and Development.
[ENG] dout.dev - how to build a vanilla CMS
From Markdown to Publishing Platform: Building dout.dev's Custom CMS Without a Framework dout.dev is a vanilla-first static site with zero runtime dependencies, but the interesting part is not only the frontend. Behind the site there is a small custom CMS that turns Markdown into a complete publishing workflow. Instead of adapting a general-purpose CMS to a narrow editorial process, the project uses a focused pipeline to parse front matter, normalize content, generate archives and taxonomies, render pages through a custom template engine, and run validation before anything is published. This talk walks through the architecture and the tradeoffs behind that decision. I will show why a custom CMS was a better fit for this project than a larger platform, how the content model stayed intentionally small, and where custom code creates both leverage and maintenance cost. Using dout.dev as a concrete case study, I will explain how performance, accessibility, determinism, and maintainability become CMS concerns, not just frontend concerns, when the publishing pipeline is designed end to end. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for deciding when a custom CMS is justified, what the minimum viable publishing architecture looks like, and how to keep a small content platform understandable as it grows.