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This post is to voice my concern about two sides of this war: developers and users/customers! Concern I have heard "wartime" used so many times in the past year that, at times, it has become annoying. There are two factors that clearly distinguish these t

Why React?

IndexedDB is not a faster HTTP cache. It is an application database that can be used as a cache when you need metadata, indexes, versioning, or queryable offline data. If that is not what you need, the browser's resource cache and the Cache API are usuall

You should treat your career like a product you own, not a ticket sitting in someone else's backlog. Your manager matters. A good one can open doors, give you context, and help you avoid stupid mistakes. But they should not be the primary owner of your gr

AI won't make you a better engineer out of the box. It might make you faster. It might even make you look 10x on a dashboard. But speed is not a skill. The Part That Should Scare Us Permalink to "The Part That Should Scare Us" # AI will absolutely change

Client-side caching is one of the highest-leverage ways to speed up modern web apps. Two mechanisms that often come up are HTTP cache and localStorage. Both persist data in the browser, but they behave very differently under the hood. The idea behind loca

Welcome to my new and hopefully final blog. I've been writing on and off for some time now, I think I started my first blog around 2013-2014. I was very early in my career and loved sharing my journey of learning and experimenting. As my career progressed