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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
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,
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
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
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
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....
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...
Decoding communication breakdowns through The Social Network and a behavioural spy manual
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...
