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Building a Headless CMS with Notion + Gatsby: Why I Chose This Stack

NotionGatsbyFrontendDevOps

A deep dive into building a headless CMS with Notion as the backend and Gatsby as the frontend.

Zero-Shot Prompting

March 4, 2026 Prompt EngineeringPrompt EngineeringAI

Zero-Shot Prompting explained: how modern LLMs leverage instruction tuning to follow commands without in-context examples. Includes Zero-Shot CoT, optimization strategies, and decision heuristics.

Meta-Prompting & Recursive Optimization

February 7, 2026 Prompt EngineeringPrompt EngineeringAI

At this level, we stop treating the prompt as text and start treating it as code. Meta-Prompting, Conductor-Expert patterns, Adversarial Trinity, and performance benchmarks.

Leveraging Airtable for Health Equity: The Story of Project N95's Dynamic Candidate Management System

February 7, 2024DevOpsLeadership

How Project N95 built a custom candidate management system in Airtable that processed 2,000+ applications, onboarded 400+ volunteers, and integrated with Stacker, Zapier, Okta, and a React/Gatsby storefront.

Growing Project N95 from Hundreds to 38,000 Twitter Followers During a Pandemic

June 1, 2023LeadershipPersonal

How Project N95 grew from hundreds to 38,000 Twitter followers during the COVID-19 pandemic, earned verification, and became a trusted voice cited by NPR, NYT, WSJ, and Scientific American.

The Tech Companies Coming Together to Support Project N95

May 22, 2020DevOpsLeadership

The technology partnerships that powered Project N95: $40K in Airtable credits, $9.5K/mo Intercom, Stacker portals, Zapier automation, and the volunteer-driven engineering behind a pandemic nonprofit.


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