Field notes from building things — the successes, the failures, and the experiences gained along the way. New entries land here first.
Notes from a weekend spent pulling shiki out of the runtime, folding MDX compilation into the build, and learning — again — that the best optimization is the one you stop doing. Here is everything that broke and everything I would keep.
Read moreThe first attempt at moving compilation out of the request path — and the three things it got wrong that I only saw once real traffic hit it in production. A post-mortem on premature cleverness.
Read morePatients live in the long tail. Every home is a little different, every body is a little different, and the protocol only gets you so far. The same patterns I see walking into living rooms show up in my codebase, too.
Read moreI spent years chasing the new thing. These days I reach for whatever I already understand at 2am when something is on fire. Boring is a feature, and here is how I learned to value it.
Read moreOn the loop between dissatisfaction and craft — when the loop is healthy and sharpening the work, versus when it is just an elaborate way to avoid shipping. A field guide to telling the two apart.
Read moreThree caches, three lifetimes, and the diagram I wish someone had handed me a year ago. If you have ever been surprised by stale data in a server component, this one is for you.
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