Data Sources
Why we settled on OpenAlex for metadata over the alternatives.
The trade-offs we accepted, and the ones we didn't.
Mar 8, 2026 · 6 min
Blog
Engineering
Cloudflare D1 limits in practice, and the pagination patterns that hold up.
Keyset pagination, query budgets, and what we'd do differently.
Mar 1, 2026 · 5 min
Research
What 50,000 abstracts taught us about how researchers describe their work.
How fields phrase novelty, and why it matters for matching.
Feb 22, 2026 · 7 min
Product
How the match score earns its place on screen.
Why we kept a number at all, and when it's allowed to lead.
Feb 15, 2026 · 4 min
Engineering
Rebuilding our indexing pipeline for daily OpenAlex syncs.
What broke at scale, and the queue design that fixed it.
Feb 8, 2026 · 9 min
Research
Signals of novelty: what abstracts reveal about impact.
The linguistic markers that predict early citations.
Feb 1, 2026 · 7 min