Hamed Pakdaman

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Hamed Pakdaman

Full-stack engineer, 10+ years building and scaling web apps. Creator of UnfoldCMS, an open-source Laravel CMS built for modern developer workflows.

267 posts

A Year of Building With shadcn: 10 Patterns That Survived Production
Web Development

A Year of Building With shadcn: 10 Patterns That Survived Production

Ten tactical shadcn/ui patterns that survived 12 months and 205 admin pages in production. Form schemas, DataTable columns as data, theme switching via CSS variables, Sheet+Dialog composition, server-side state, variant discipline, type-safe URLs, server-action pattern. Copy-pasteable, real code.

· 11 min read
Content Scheduling in a CMS: Publish on Autopilot
General

Content Scheduling in a CMS: Publish on Autopilot

A developer's guide to CMS content scheduling: why steady cadence beats bursts, how the posted_at + scheduler pattern works, timezone gotchas, editorial calendars, and the 404-before-live pitfall.

· 12 min read
CMS User Roles and Permissions: A Practical Guide
General

CMS User Roles and Permissions: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to CMS user roles and permissions: role archetypes, module-level vs action-level access, multi-author workflows without approval chains, and onboarding/offboarding checklists.

· 14 min read
CMS Media Library Best Practices for 2026
CMS

CMS Media Library Best Practices for 2026

A practical guide to running a CMS media library at scale — format strategy, automatic WebP conversions, alt text, lazy loading vs fetchpriority, and storage planning, with UnfoldCMS as the disclosed worked example.

· 11 min read
Internal Linking Strategy for Blogs That Actually Compounds
CMS

Internal Linking Strategy for Blogs That Actually Compounds

Internal links are the most underused SEO lever: you control the source, target, and anchor of every one. This guide covers hub-and-spoke clusters, orphan pages, anchor variation, and a maintenance workflow that makes every new post strengthen the old ones.

· 14 min read
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