Pagination Is a Frontend System Design Problem
Why the database query is the last 10% of the problem You open your favourite social media app. You start scrolling through your feed. Everything feels normal. You stop halfway down because something
Daniel Philip Johnson
Remote Developer | Based in Cornwall, UK I am a Full-Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience, transitioning from startups → agencies → large-scale e-commerce → fintech.
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The Era of AI Won't Reward Better Prompts. It'll Reward Better Judgement.
I remember when getting stuck was part of becoming a better engineer. You would spend hours trying to understand why something was not working, reading documentation, tracing through unfamiliar code,
React and Symfony Performance: Reducing Latency at Frontend Boundaries
This is a frontend architecture case study from a hybrid React and Symfony application. The core problem was not simply slow pages. The problem was that users moved between client-rendered React route
Frontend Performance Architecture in Fintech: Elimination, Efficiency, and Scheduling
TL;DR Frontend performance is not just about applying a checklist of optimisations. In fintech, it is about understanding what work the system is making users wait for, especially during high-friction
Time Slicing Isn’t Magic. It’s the Event Loop (Thanks, Ryan)
This post isn’t me being clever. It’s me standing slightly to the side of Ryan Carniato while he explains, very calmly, why half the frontend discourse about “transitions” and “responsiveness” is misp
Is Productivity Flatlining? The Death of Hustle in a Burnout Society
Jamie wakes up to the chirp of her productivity app.She logs her meditation, tracks her sleep, checks her calories, and scrolls through a feed of “5am Club” videos all before sunrise. By 8am, she’s already reported to five algorithms and not herself....
llms: Slot Machines With a Fancy Autocomplete Button
Large Language Models (LLMs) are often described in breathless tones: “They’re the future of intelligence!” “They’ll replace programmers!” “They passed the bar exam!” Calm down. Strip away the neon hype, and you’ll see what they really are: they’re s...
You Can Read Anyone in Tech — Even Zuckerberg
Decoding communication breakdowns through The Social Network and a behavioural spy manual
The AI Lied — And Other Things You Say When You Don’t Understand How Software Works
A live production database.A rogue AI.4,000 imaginary users.And somewhere, a developer staring at the logs thinking:"Ah yes, truly, we are the gods now." Last week, Jason Lemkin ran a 12-day “vibe coding” challenge to see how far he could get using R...
