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Working notes on the parts of full-stack development I find hard or interesting — architecture, performance, and the tools in between.

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Jun 21, 2026 You're Not Falling Behind — You're Witnessing the Future Too Early Why AI-generated code makes seasoned developers feel small, and why that feeling is measuring the wrong thing. aideveloper-experiencecareerreflectiontools 5 min read Jun 17, 2026 Your Shared Library Is Wearing a Trench Coat How I rebuilt one shared package three times and learned that abstraction has to earn its keep. architectureabstractionmicroservicesrefactoringlessons-learned 8 min read May 18, 2026 Designing for the edge: state without a server Where do you put application state when there is no long-lived server? A field guide to durable objects, signed cookies, and the new shape of "session". architectureedge 3 min read Apr 30, 2026 The cost of a re-render, measured I profiled a real dashboard to find out what re-renders actually cost — and which of the usual fixes move the needle versus which are folklore. performancereact 3 min read Apr 09, 2026 A Vite config I actually understand Rebuilding my build tooling from an empty file, one option at a time, until I could explain every line out loud. toolingvite 2 min read Mar 22, 2026 Type-safe forms without the boilerplate One schema, three jobs: validation, types, and the form itself. A pattern that's served me from tiny inputs to multi-step wizards. architecturetooling 2 min read