Experience Managed · Established 2015

Thoughts on content management.

A working publication on content management — written from real-world conversations & observations. If it exists here, it seemed important at the time.

By Chris Millar · 14 pieces · Updated April 2026

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Opinion · 28 Apr 2026

The seven deadly sins of Edge Delivery development.

A working list of mistakes I see across teams adopting EDS — and the small habits that fix most of them.

Field notes · 22 Apr 2026

Claude can be shockingly good at polish if you let it.

A pattern from three recent projects: hand the model the boring part, keep the position. The output gets sharper, not duller.

Opinion · 14 Apr 2026

The tension between brand equity and making money.

CMS conversations always end at the same wall. The wall is real — and it's the wrong one to break through.

Code patterns · 06 Apr 2026

Decorating EDS blocks without a framework.

Forty lines of vanilla JavaScript replaces most of what teams reach for a framework to do. Three real patterns.

Opinion · 28 Mar 2026

The document is the source of truth.

EDS asks an old question with new urgency: what is content for? The answer reshapes every workflow upstream of it.

Field notes · 19 Mar 2026

The week-three incident.

Every project has one. This time it was an asset pipeline that worked perfectly until it didn't. Notes from the bug.

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The pillars

Three things I write about.

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Opinion — to position.

Long-form positions on industry direction, platform decisions, the state of CMS work. The thought-leadership read for leaders; the position-piece for engineers who want a take.

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Code patterns — to equip.

Short, reusable techniques for AEM and Edge Delivery — copy-paste-friendly, no framework required. Excellent code typography; layout gets out of the way.

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Field notes — to witness.

Short observations from real client work. A logbook register: specific, dated, lower stakes. The pillar that builds credibility through accumulation.

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About the writer

Chris Millar writes Experience Managed. He works at Adobe; this blog is independent of Adobe. He writes when there's something he wants in writing — and is loyal to humans making things, AI-assisted included.

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