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I'm Safdar Ali, a frontend engineer in Bengaluru. Last quarter I audited a client dashboard that...

Junior PRs in my reviews often wrap every function in useCallback and every array in useMemo because...

Bad nextjs folder structure does not show up on day one. It shows up at month six when three...

Global state still matters in 2026 — but most pages should not need it. When they do, the debate is...

Every new project sparks the same debate: utility classes or scoped CSS files? I ship Tailwind CSS on...

React 19 shipped a laundry list of features. Twitter threads treated every hook like mandatory. In...

I'm Safdar Ali. For six months I treated every Next.js page like SSR because "server" sounded safest....

I'm Safdar Ali, a frontend engineer in Bengaluru. Three years ago I turned off strict mode on a...

A team upgraded to Next.js 15 and React 19, enabled the React Compiler, and expected Lighthouse...

I'm Safdar Ali. I build React and Next.js for a living — frontend at Cube, client work on the side,...

I'm Safdar Ali. Roughly three quarters of professional React developers now ship on Next.js — which...

A real production case study from a frontend engineer at a Sequoia-backed startup — exactly what I changed, why it worked, and the metrics before and after.

I'm Safdar Ali, a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Bengaluru, India. Currently building product UI...

🟢 Short Answer: Most major AI services are operational as of May 9, 2026. Claude had a significant...

If you use Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or any other AI coding assistant, your stack matters as much as...

Chatbots were only the beginning. The real revolution is tool-using AI agents—systems that don’t just...

Websites used to be static pages. Then they became dynamic applications. Now they are becoming...

There’s a quiet frustration spreading in frontend teams. “React is confusing.” “Hooks are...

For years, websites were built for humans. Now they are increasingly being built—or at least...