Tag: Software development
React/Next: The Map
Nine posts. One request.
What Redux Was Actually For
The previous post argued that most of what people put in a global store was never client state — it was server data, or URL state, or form values, all miscategorised.
React/Next: Effects Are Not Lifecycle
Post 3 established a fact in passing that's worth picking back up: useEffect does not run during the SSR pass. Your client component executes on the server, produces markup, and its effects never fire.
React/Next: What's Actually Left for the Client
This series has spent several posts taking things away from the browser.
React/Next: 'use server'- A Mutation, End to End
Functions can't cross the boundary. Not because React is fussy, but because the two sides never share a scope — there's no lexical environment on the client for a server closure to be captured from. Props go into a text payload. A function isn't text.
Suspense Is Not a Loading Spinner
One question before we start.
React/Next: Two Graphs, One Repo
A module path, a chunk, an export name. That's bundler output — the bundler assigned the ID and decided which file the module lives in.
What Your Bundler Actually Does
Browsers have supported ES modules natively since 2018. Every browser you care about can read import and export without help.
React/Next : What Runs When, and What Comes Out
Here's a test. Take this component:
How React Actually Updates the DOM — VDOM, Reconciliation, Fiber, and Why Signals Are a Different Idea Entirely
Here’s a question I sat with for longer than I should have: if React’s Virtual DOM is supposed to make things faster, why does a complex React app sometimes feel slower than a simple jQuery one?
Rendering Patterns in React and Next.js — A Map for the Genuinely Confused
Rendering patterns are one of those topics where everyone nods along in standup and then quietly Googles “SSR vs SSG” for the fourth time that week.
JavaScript Modules: The Framework Behind Modern Code
The original problem modules solved was not performance — it was namespace pollution.
Browser & JS Engine — Key Takeaways for Frontend Engineers
Stuff a software engineer should know about browsers
Games Are Allowed to End
PEAK has had its final major update. That doesn’t mean it is abandonware.
Am I a Rust developer?
deep knowledge, and why everyone using agents is now a site reliability engineer
Asynchronous JavaScript for the Browser — Complete Picture
How the browser event loop actually works — tasks, microtasks, Web APIs — and what async/await is really doing underneath the syntax sugar. Includes the edge cases that actually break in production.
Why you should do web development full stack
Ramble about being constrained, I guess
Cat Hicks – The Psychology of Software Teams
This book gave psychological context to many things I had already observed at work: learning needs time, performance depends on the environment, and belonging matters. Software development is social, not individual. Sustainable teams need room for learning, problem-solving and helping others instead of constantly optimizing for short-term output.
ATProto: Engine of Software 2.0
Accelerating the Security Development Lifecycle
Stateless MCP is cheaper to scale
MCP’s 2026-07-28 specification removes protocol sessions and the `Mcp-Session-Id` header, making remote MCP servers cheaper and easier to scale. This post explains the old session model, why it required infrastructure such as sticky routing and Redis, and how stateless MCP preserves application state through explicit handles.
Hype cycle, bad takes, API design, GraphQL + AI, and marketing
Schema workshop: the doctor is in
What is Freeq
freeq is an IRC server. It speaks the protocol your 1999 client speaks, and it adds one thing IRC never had: every participant holds a cryptographic key.
local-thirst: But Linear…
Dissecting Linear as a local-first app.
MCP tool calling under the hood
So when we say that an AI called a tool, what usually happened is a little more specific than that phrase suggests. Here's a deeper look into that plumbing.
AI Agentic Coding Assistants
I have gone through the five stages of grief with AI, after a bad first impression I started out deeply sceptical but I have come out the other side a fully-converted acolyte. Agentic coding is here to stay, it is revolutionising software development and thats a good thing.
The Journey of Publishing My First App on the App Store
About a year ago, I published my first app – and I may have some insights and opinions.
OpenClaw Agent from an Archimate Perspective
As so many others, I played around with OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai/). I guess I did not find any revolutionary, but as always, I tried to sketch up how 'my' agent works. So, here we go.
The value is in the difficulty
On building software, vibe coding, and what happens to market prices when the barriers fall
A Guide to Harness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Agent Workflows
A practical framework for building reliable AI agent workflows through harness design, state management, and end-to-end verification.
"The IDE is Dead, Long Live the IDE"
With the rise of agents, terminal emulators are quickly evolving into a lot more than just interfaces, here's a glimpse into where they're headed!
Announcing Octothorpe Protocol v0.6
hashtags on links, MultiPasses, Explore Page, and more
Learn & Relearn
With industry changes forcing us to re-evaluate what software engineering should be, the retrospection path isn't uniform or unanimous, nor should it be.
Learning To Write Software… Is Hard
But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.
Deterministic Governance and Proactive Protection for Autonomous Coding Agents
An in-depth analysis of the critical role of deterministic governance and proactive protection mechanisms, such as hooks, in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of autonomous coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI.
Alem Tuzlak - Tanstack Dev Tools and Tanstack AI
Alem Tuzlak breaks down building TanStack Dev Tools and how TanStack AI differentiates itself in the crowded AI library landscape.
Fortresses, Pipes, and Brains
Workday's CEO called AI agent startups "parasites." Linear shipped a native AI agent that understands software development workflows. These are two ends of a spectrum, with most of the industry stuck in the middle — exposing data through MCP without embedding any intelligence. The companies that win will be the ones that make AI native to their domain workflow.
Overclock AI Accelerator and Rapid Prototyping
My first weeks in an accelerator cohort and what I've learned so far
Paolo Ricciuti - Svelte, TMCP
Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte maintainer and TMCP creator, discusses Svelte 5's new runes system and his journey from fan to core contributor.
Mark Erikson - Redux, Replay.io
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson covers his journey maintaining Redux, building Redux Toolkit, and pioneering time-travel debugging at Replay.io.
Jamon Holmgren - Infinite Red, Into the Dawn
Infinite Red founder Jamon Holmgren shares his coding journey, building a React Native consultancy, and creating his new game Into the Dawn.
The Curious Case of the Triton Malware Fork
Today, a weird malware distribution campaign targeting users of omg.lol and Triton, an open-source macOS client of omg.lol, was found. The attack leverages the trust of GitHub, creating a malicious fork where the download link has been replaced with malware hidden in presented .zip file.
The Curious Case of the Triton Malware Fork
Today, a weird malware distribution campaign targeting users of omg.lol and Triton, an open-source macOS client of omg.lol, was found. The attack leverages the trust of GitHub, creating a malicious fork where the download link has been replaced with malware hidden in presented .zip file.
Engineering Excellence in the Agentic Era: A Framework for Professional Standards and Quality Control
Engineering Standards and Quality Control in the Age of AI Agents
Developer Responsibility Beyond Job Role
Why "That's Not My Job" Might Be Stalling Your Career
Why I'm Changing the License in Over 80 of My Code Repos After Talking to the Co-Creator of Fediverse
Why I'm Switching from MIT to AGPL and from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA after a conversation with Dr. Matt Lee about copyleft licensing and protecting free software from corporate exploitation.
Why Discord Sucks for Developer Communities
If you’re maintaining an open-source library or building a community around a project, you’re eventually going to look for a place for that community to live. I’ve spent the last few years navigating this as a core maintainer of Tiptap—an open-source framework for building rich text editors.