Christian Syfert

Writing

Case studies and notes on accessibility, resilient systems, and the craft of building for the web.

  1. 6 min read

    Building this site: correct before JavaScript runs

    A tour of the architecture behind this portfolio: a fully static Next.js site where the screen-reader experience and the no-JavaScript experience are the design, not the fallback.

    • architecture
    • accessibility
    • static sites
    • next.js
  2. 7 min read

    Magenta: why we trained a model instead of building a RAG pipeline

    How a multi-task fine-tuned DeBERTa model replaced a retrieval pipeline for a Fortune 500 document workflow, and the architectural decisions that made it work with 4,000 training examples instead of tens of thousands.

    • machine learning
    • NLP
    • mlops
    • architecture