https://alenalex.me/writing I build backend systems and write about whatever I'm learning. https://alenalex.me/writing/engineering-prompts-for-a-real-app/building-prompts-from-blocks https://alenalex.me/writing/engineering-prompts-for-a-real-app/building-prompts-from-blocks Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT One giant prompt string gets scary to touch. Here's how I broke mine into small Lego-like blocks, kept user text from hijacking it. The bonus was I could test it exactly how it would run in production. https://alenalex.me/writing/this-repo-is-my-cms https://alenalex.me/writing/this-repo-is-my-cms Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT No CMS and no database. The posts are just folders in this repo, and pushing to main publishes them.