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Most projects that went wrong were already wrong on page one. This is the brief we now refuse to start without: who decides, what already exists, what counts as done, and the three questions that reveal a budget before anyone has to say a number.
A schema that fails the build is worth more than a CMS that lets anyone publish a broken page. What we validate in Astro, what we deliberately leave alone, and the three rules that keep a Zod schema from slowly turning into a second CMS.
We rebuilt a site we first shipped in 2016, and the markup that survived was never the clever markup. What holds up: elements chosen for meaning, state left where the browser can see it, and a hard limit on what a class name is allowed to know.