Every Framework Claims Server-Side Rendering—Here’s What Actually Matters
SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, partial hydration—cutting through the rendering taxonomy
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
The Pragmatist’s Guide to Choosing a JavaScript Runtime in 2025
Node, Bun, or Deno—how to pick without starting a religious war
Coding Agents Changed How I Ship Software and There’s No Going Back
A month with Claude Code, Copilot CLI, and agentic workflows—a brutally honest review
The Developer Tool Landscape Is Consolidating Around AI-Native Platforms
Cursor, Windsurf, and Zed are eating VS Code’s lunch by being AI-first instead of AI-added
Understanding WASM Components Will Make You a Better Engineer
The component model is the universal ABI the industry has been waiting thirty years for
The Next.js Backlash Is Overblown (But Not Entirely Wrong)
Vercel’s framework dominance is real, and so are the criticisms—here’s a nuanced take
Effective AI Code Review: A Framework for Teams
How to review AI-generated code differently than human-written code
Developer AI Skepticism Is Growing and That’s the Healthiest Thing I’ve Seen
The survey reveals a maturing industry that’s done with hype cycles
AI Coding Agents Need Guardrails, Not Cheerleaders
The unrestricted ’let the agent do everything’ approach is creating a new class of technical debt
Valkey Forked Redis and Nobody Panicked
The open-source community proved it can replace corporate-controlled infrastructure overnight