React Query vs SWR in 2026, picked by use case, not by feature checklist. I walk through cache model, mutations, Next.js fit, and my actual…
I migrated two Laravel apps to Octane with FrankenPHP and watched p99 latency halve. Here's what broke, what I left on FPM, and the real…
I upgraded to Tailwind v4 out of boredom and got a faster dev loop I didn't expect. Here's what the Rust-based Oxide engine actually changed,…
I pointed a local 7B model at my Postgres database to write SQL from plain English. Here's where text-to-sql LLMs held up, where they lied,…
gRPC vs REST in 2026, decided by who calls your service and how often. Real Go and proto code, where each one wins, and the…
Next.js 15 flipped App Router caching from opt-out to opt-in. What changed for fetch and GET route handlers, why it is safer, and how I…
I ran four repos for one product and lost Fridays to version-syncing. Here's how I think about monorepo vs polyrepo now, and when each setup…
Is Copilot safe? The tool's fine, but its code is only as secure as your review. The SQL injection I found auditing AI code, plus…
React 19's useOptimistic hook replaced my hand-rolled optimistic UI: instant likes and messages with automatic rollback. Here's how I use it, with code.
The Go error handling patterns I actually use in production: wrapping with %w, errors.Is and errors.As, sentinel errors, and errors.Join, with code.