Where htmx earns its place, where I still reach for React, what htmx 4 changes with fetch and explicit inheritance, and the costs the demos…
I migrated three production projects from Tailwind v3 to v4 in one weekend. What the upgrade tool fixed, what silently broke, and the checks I'd…
Livewire 4 shipped islands and optimistic UI, Laravel Inertia shipped deferred props. I picked one, migrated half of it back, and here is the heuristic…
Bootstrap hasn't shipped a release since August 2025 while Tailwind shipped three. Here's how that changed which one I pick, and when I still choose…
Server Actions in Next.js 16 queue one at a time, and revalidateTag no longer means what it used to. The two rules that cost me…
I broke a React app twice in one week because an error boundary never fired. Here's the setup I actually ship in 2026 with react-error-boundary…
When to pick Server-Sent Events over WebSockets in 2026: a shipping engineer's take on real-time channels for dashboards, LLM streams, and more.
htmx or React in 2026? After shipping both, here's when I reach for htmx, when I stay on React, and why the online essays get…
I ran Cypress for years, then moved my e2e suite to Playwright. Here's what actually broke, what improved, and how I'd do the migration again.
How I stopped writing Next.js API routes for mutations, what Server Actions actually replaced, the bugs they caused me, and where I still keep API…