The App Router Lessons I Wish I'd Known on Day One

Six months in Next.js's App Router and a handful of things I'd do differently. Real patterns, real mistakes, and what I'd tell my past self before the first commit.

The Future of Developer Productivity with Aiswarya, Founder of Intelligence

An insightful interview with Aiswarya, founder of the SF-based startup Intelligence, on making AI coding production-ready and solving key engineering bottlenecks.

What Nobody Tells You About Building a RAG Pipeline in Production

Most RAG tutorials stop at 'use a vector DB and retrieve top-k chunks.' Here's what actually breaks when real users start typing — and the cheap fixes that move the needle.

Why I Stopped Reaching for useEffect (And You Probably Should Too)

Most useEffect calls in modern React are mistakes. Here's the mental model I use now — when to skip it, what to replace it with, and the one question that catches half of them.