Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Green Web, Hungry AI - An Honest Sustainability Reckoning
I optimize websites down to the kilobyte and then run energy-hungry AI models all day. Both are true, and pretending otherwise is greenwashing in either direction. Here are the actual numbers, where AI helps sustainability, where it is pure indulgence, and the framework I use to decide.
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The Golden Path - Why New Projects Should Be Boring
Starting a new project is where teams re-litigate every decision they already made: structure, linting, CI, auth, deployment. A golden path makes that moment boring on purpose - and in the age of AI agents scaffolding services in hours, boring has never been more valuable.
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Delete a Dependency - Native Browser APIs That Replaced Your Libraries
Open your package.json. Half of it is solving problems the browser now solves natively. Here is a practical tour of the packages you can delete in 2026 - modals, tooltips, scroll animations, deep clone, date formatting - the platform feature that replaces each, and why every deletion pays you back forever.
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The Maintenance Nobody Schedules
Old deployment revisions pile up, registries bloat, credentials quietly approach expiry - and nobody plans that work until it breaks on a Saturday. Here is the pattern that fixes it: small independent scheduled jobs with least privilege, living in one platform repo instead of everyone's backlog.
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App-Feel Without the Framework - View Transitions and Speculation Rules
We used to reach for a heavy JavaScript framework just to make navigation feel smooth and instant. In 2026 the browser does both natively - View Transitions animate between pages, Speculation Rules prerender the next one. Here is how to get app-feel on a plain multi-page site, with a few lines and zero framework.