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Chronomation Media Hosting Strategy

How I’m designing media hosting for The Builder Coil and Chronomation: from simple file-based images to multi-tenant media for future clients.

December 5, 20255 min read
Chronomation Architecture Decisions
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Chronomation: Key Architecture Decisions

A deep dive into the architecture decisions behind Chronomation – our multi-tenant content engine. Why we chose Neon, Drizzle, and a tenant-first data model.

December 4, 20254 min read
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The Builder Coil is Live

The Builder Coil — my builder’s grimoire where I share what I’m building at Ball Lightning AB, including Chronomation, client work and experiments — is now live.

December 3, 20253 min read
Building with TanStack Start: First Impressions

My experience setting up The Builder Coil with TanStack Start, TanStack Router, and the modern React 19 stack. What I learned and what surprised me.

December 3, 20253 min read

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