My honest take on Vercel AI SDK v5 after three production projects, plus the useChat and tool-calling gotchas I wish someone had warned me about…
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…
Drizzle vs Prisma in 2026: my honest take after six months in production on Next.js, Hono on Workers, and one boring Node service on a…
I moved nearly every mutation in two production Next.js apps onto Server Actions. Here is what got deleted, what useActionState fixed, and what still bites.
I shipped the same marketing site in Next.js and then in Astro, then kept score. Here's when I actually reach for each, with bundle numbers…
I shipped chat UIs the hard way before Vercel AI SDK existed. Here's what useChat, streamText, and tools v5 actually replaced in my production apps.
Pages Router in Next.js isn't legacy in 2026. Here's when I still reach for it instead of App Router on real production projects, with code…
Eight months running React Server Components in production. The boundary patterns that worked, the bugs I shipped, and when I still pick client components.
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…
Honest take on Drizzle vs Prisma after running both in production. When I switched my Next.js project, when Prisma still wins, and what tripped me…