I spent a Sunday turning on the React Compiler in a real Next.js app. Here's what I deleted, what bit me, and the eslint rule…
JSONB in Postgres is great in the right place and a slow tax everywhere else. Here's the decision tree, indexing tips, and ORM patterns I…
I avoided React Suspense for two years and was wrong. Six months in, here are the patterns that actually saved me, and where I still…
I've built real-time features both ways for years. Here's how I actually pick between WebSockets and Server-Sent Events without overthinking it.
What I actually figured out about Next.js Partial Prerendering after six months in production. The patterns where it earned its place, and where I avoided…
Six weeks with useActionState in React 19: where it kills useReducer, the error-handling pattern I use, and when I still reach for the old way.
Six weeks running Laravel Pulse in production. The recorders I turned off, the slow query that surprised me, and when I still reach for Telescope.
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.