I migrated a Laravel codebase from PHPUnit to Pest and stopped halfway. Here's where Pest actually wins, where PHPUnit still does, and what I'd skip.
After two years of running RAG in production, here are the chunking strategies I actually use, the ones I dropped, and why chunk size is…
I've used Go's range-over-func iterators in production for eight months. Here's what I keep reaching for, what I dropped, and where the new pattern bites.
I ignored Go 1.23 iterators for almost a year. Here's what finally made me reach for them, where they're worth it, and the footgun that…
I replaced Redux Toolkit with Zustand on two React apps and stopped on a third. Here are the patterns I actually use and when Redux…
Six months of Laravel Volt in production: where single-file Livewire components actually pay off, where they don't, and the bits that tripped me up.
I've been migrating projects from Jest to Vitest since late 2024. Here's where Vitest actually wins, where Jest still beats it, and the playbook I…
Six years of React, written from the bruises. When each hook actually earns its keep, and the times I reached for one and made things…
I rewrote our admin panel in htmx and kept our dashboard in React. Here's how the two compare in 2026, with code, gotchas, and when…
Valibot's bundle size win is real, but switching from Zod cost me more than I expected. Here's what I migrated, what I didn't, and why…