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Hello, Kumizhi

Introducing the Kumizhi blog — where we write about API design, contract testing, AI engineering, and developer tooling.

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Welcome to the Kumizhi blog. This is where we’ll publish weekly technical writing on topics we care about: API design, contract testing, AI engineering, and the developer tools we build to make day-to-day engineering less frustrating.

Why this blog exists

Two reasons. First, we build developer tools — Handshake is an API contract testing platform — and tools need context. The best way to explain a tool is to show the thinking behind it. Second, the act of writing forces clarity. If I can’t explain a technical idea, I don’t understand it yet.

What you can expect

Posts here aim for depth over breadth:

The publishing pipeline

Here’s the rough architecture of how posts get from draft to published:

Draft in repo

Author edits locally

git push to main

Vercel builds Astro site

Live at kumizhi-ai.com/blog

Syndicate to dev.to + Hashnode

Each post lives in content/blog/<slug>/index.mdx in this repo. The canonical home is always kumizhi-ai.com/blog/<slug> — syndication targets point back here.

What’s next

The first real post drops next week. In the meantime, if you want to follow along, subscribe via RSS.

Thanks for reading.