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HTMX Is Overkill (Until Your React Bundle Explodes)
Why I stopped reaching for SPA frameworks first and started shipping HTML-over-the-wire for most projects
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Software engineering
Production lessons on architecture, debugging, maintainability, deployment workflows, and the tradeoffs that separate toy systems from durable ones.
This is the broadest bucket on the site, but it all comes back to one question: what still makes sense when the code has users, constraints, and consequences?
Start with these articles:
- Server-Sent Events: When WebSockets Are Overkill (And When They’re Not)
- Git Branching Strategies: Most Teams Pick Wrong (Here’s How to Choose)
- The Custom Framework You’re Building Will Break Your Team
- Stop Explaining JOINs with Venn Diagrams—Here’s What Actually Breaks
- Your Global Scope Is a Disaster (And It’s Breaking Production)
If your problems are mostly about systems getting harder to reason about, this is the lane to stay in.
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Agentic Programming: Why Most Developers Are Preparing for the Wrong AI Future
The shift from writing code to orchestrating systems is happening faster than you think
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The Custom Framework You're Building Will Break Your Team
Why every "lightweight, tailored solution" eventually becomes an unmaintained, undocumented mess
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Why JAMstack Teams Are Quietly Moving to Composable Architecture
Static sites were revolutionary. Then we asked them to do too much.
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Why I Stopped Defaulting to React for Every Project
After years of watching teams drown in JavaScript complexity, I'm back to building most apps with server-rendered frameworks—and shipping faster than ever.
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Customer Desire Paths: Why Users Ignore Your Design (And When to Let Them)
Users will find workarounds. Your job is knowing which ones to pave and which ones to block.
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