From bb2bc2471e8d9526090517899b4a68109134a9dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon van Zantvoort Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 23:26:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(blog): open the why-we-built-storm abstract with the reader --- website/src/pages/blog/index.js | 2 +- website/src/pages/blog/why-we-built-storm.js | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/index.js b/website/src/pages/blog/index.js index fb790af29..e7efdb2bd 100644 --- a/website/src/pages/blog/index.js +++ b/website/src/pages/blog/index.js @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ const POSTS = [ tag: 'Origin', title: 'Why we built ST/ORM', blurb: - 'We used JPA and Hibernate for years and mostly liked them. This is the quieter reason we built a different ORM anyway: 300 tables, and managed entities you cannot pass around without ceremony.', + 'If you have worked with JPA and Hibernate long enough, you probably know the feeling. Most of the time, things are fine. Then the model grows, the codebase gets larger, and there is some drama. One day we got the opportunity to start over. That is where our story starts.', }, ]; diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/why-we-built-storm.js b/website/src/pages/blog/why-we-built-storm.js index 63aeed6ed..be2398b24 100644 --- a/website/src/pages/blog/why-we-built-storm.js +++ b/website/src/pages/blog/why-we-built-storm.js @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ import {BlogPage} from '../../components/blog/blogTheme'; const TITLE = 'Why we built ST/ORM'; const DESC = - 'We used JPA and Hibernate for years and mostly liked them. This is the ' + - 'quieter story of why we still built ST/ORM: a backend we had to replace, an ' + - 'entity model that pushed us toward DTOs, and an idea, sparked by Java ' + - 'String Templates, for a model we actually wanted to program against.'; + 'If you have worked with JPA and Hibernate long enough, you probably know ' + + 'the feeling. Most of the time, things are fine. Then the model grows, the ' + + 'codebase gets larger, and there is some drama. One day we got the ' + + 'opportunity to start over. That is where our story starts.'; const SLUG = 'why-we-built-storm'; const DATE = '2025-09-02';