I've shipped Laravel apps with Livewire, Inertia.js, and a separate React SPA. Here's how I actually choose between them, with code and a few regrets.
Six TypeScript utility types that earn their keep in production, the hand-rolled types they replaced, and the clever ones I stopped using. Real code included.
Prompt engineering tunes what you ask. Context engineering decides what the model sees at all. Where my agents kept dying on long runs, and the…
I moved my realtime features off Pusher to self-hosted Laravel Reverb. Here's the actual code diff, what got better, and the production gotchas that bit…
I switched on the React Compiler in a real app and deleted most of my useMemo and useCallback calls. Here's what changed and where it…
Real LLM hallucination examples from my own apps, why retrieval doesn't fully fix them, and the cheap code checks I run to catch made-up answers…
I defended Redux for years, then Zustand made most of the boilerplate disappear. Here's how the two compare, with real code, and where I still…
What I actually keep in the hooks folder in 2026 - usePersistedState, useDebouncedValue, useEventListener - and the half-dozen custom hooks I quietly deleted.
I moved some production caches to Valkey and kept Redis on others. Here's what actually changed, what stayed identical, and when I'd still pick Redis.
Most htmx tutorials skip the part that confuses React developers. Here's the mental model I needed before any of it clicked, plus the four patterns…