I moved my marketing site from Next.js to Astro islands and cut the JavaScript bundle by 91%. Here's the partial hydration setup I actually ship…
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…
A year of shipping PHP 8.4 property hooks in production: what actually replaced my old methods, where they made things worse, and the gotcha I…
TypeScript is structural, which is fine until two strings mean different things. Here is the branded types pattern I use to stop shipping ID mix-ups.
After two years shipping both Zustand and Redux Toolkit in React apps, here's how I actually decide, plus the migration path most teams miss.
I moved a Next.js app from Tailwind v3 to v4 on a Sunday. Here's what the @theme block, the Oxide engine, and the one migration…
After a year of porting three of my own apps between Node, Bun, and Deno 2, here's the decision tree I actually use to pick…
pgvector plus HNSW replaced Pinecone on half my side projects. The schema, the index picks, hybrid search with FTS, and where I still reach for…
I turned on the React Compiler in a real Next.js app, deleted a pile of useMemo and useCallback, and watched what broke. Honest field notes…
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.