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The 2026 Web Development Roadmap Nobody's Saying Out Loud
Why learning frameworks matters less than learning to work with AI—and the skills that still separate juniors from seniors
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Web development
Opinionated essays on frameworks, rendering strategies, frontend complexity, performance tradeoffs, and building faster with less unnecessary machinery.
This category is where I push back hardest on web-development fashion. Most teams are not losing because they picked the wrong trendy stack. They’re losing because they added too much machinery before they earned the complexity.
Start with these:
- The 2026 Web Development Roadmap Nobody’s Saying Out Loud
- Why I Stopped Defaulting to React for Every Project
- Why I Build Everything With Astro Now (And Stopped Reaching for Next.js)
- HTMX Is Overkill (Until Your React Bundle Explodes)
- I Removed Sass From My Build Pipeline (And You Probably Should Too)
If you’re trying to simplify how you ship on the web, start here.
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I Built a Production iOS App With Rails and No Swift Developer
Why Hotwire Native ships mobile apps faster than React Native—and when you actually need a native framework
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Server-Sent Events: When WebSockets Are Overkill (And When They're Not)
Most teams reach for WebSockets when all they need is a long-lived GET request. Here's what I learned after choosing wrong multiple times.
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Your Global Scope Is a Disaster (And It's Breaking Production)
After debugging countless production incidents caused by global namespace collisions, I've learned that scope discipline isn't optional—it's survival.
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I Removed Sass From My Build Pipeline (And You Probably Should Too)
After years of defending preprocessors, I've watched native CSS absorb every feature that justified Sass—and do it better.
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I Shipped More With Rails in 3 Weeks Than With Node.js in 3 Months
After years of chasing JavaScript frameworks, I've learned that boring, mature technology ships products while trendy stacks ship complexity.
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