Backend Engineering

Practical insights into protocol design, tooling integration, and production deployment Continue reading on CodeX »

Authentication feels complicated until you stop thinking about libraries and start thinking about trust. Continue reading on Medium »

Part two of the series: compile the newest mainline Linux kernel on Ubuntu 22.04 and boot it against a persistent Ubuntu root filesystem… Continue reading on Me

Bad names do not just make code harder to read. They hide weak ownership, wrong assumptions, and decisions that slow every future change. Continue reading on Sk

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Tired of spinning up a Node server or wrestling with PHP just to make your static site's "Contact Me"...

Uploading large files can be problematic, especially when users have unstable internet connections. A...

Today I continued working on my Food Blog Platform 🍰 built with Django. The focus was not on new...

Every backend engineer has lived through this scenario: It’s a high-traffic Tuesday, your application...

Let me be honest with you as a JavaScript/TypeScript developer, there’s one thing that still makes me want to throw my laptop out the… Continue reading on Mediu

Stamps form a strictly total order. Given any two stamps, exactly one is greater. No ties. Ever. When...

Stop being confused by asynchronous JavaScript. This guide will make it click — forever. Continue reading on Medium »

Last time we ended on a promise. A Program Derived Address has no private key, so no human can sign...

SSH proves who you are before your app runs a byte. I built a small Go framework on that idea. Here is what it unlocks.

The Graphics APIs are responsible for connecting high-level code to drivers (one kind of low-level...

Seu controller não nasceu pra validar. Veja como Form Requests deixam o código do Laravel limpo de verdade — e quando NÃO usar.

"Just split(',') it." Famous last words. CSV is deceptively hard the moment a value contains a comma....

Pare de copiar e colar validação de CPF em todo Form Request. Veja como centralizar tudo com Custom Validation Rules no Laravel.

I run Vite on almost everything. Astro sites, Nuxt projects, a small group of libraries I maintain on...

I'll be honest: I almost did multi-tenancy the wrong way. When I started building InspectIQ "a SaaS...

Scry lets you talk to any EVM smart contract in plain English. Point it at an address on six chains...

I published a comparison of Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Blob Storage a little while back. Looking back...

I have been building FastPlay, a minimal native Windows video player written in Rust. FastPlay repo:...

The bug that broke my warmup engine was not a missing save call. That is the obvious culprit when...

Every Next.js app has the same performance trap: you ship a heavy component that every user has to...

Six parts, five days, one MCP tool: suggest_improvements is committed, linted, documented, and live in Claude Desktop — 101 tests passing… Continue reading on M

results-ts brings Rust's Result and Option types to TypeScript with full type safety, async support, and chainable methods.

Pricing pages answer the question “what does a unit cost”. They are conspicuously silent on the question you actually have: “what will my… Continue reading on M

Learn how to implement and fully customize CodeIgniter 4 pagination with Bootstrap 5 styling, custom templates, AJAX support, and real-world tips from productio

Last week in a group chat, I saw a frontend dev with a ponytail complaining: his monorepo took 45 seconds to run a single `pnpm run build`… Continue reading on

Approach to versioning REST APIs by header-based versioning, backward-compatibility, deprecation policy; shared contracts via OpenAPI and consumer communication

Horilla CRM is a free and open source, self-hosted sales CRM built on Django — pipeline, leads, contacts, email, and forecasting in one platform. Try the live d

Started this for the H0 Hackathon. The requirement was straightforward, use Vercel with one of three...

A practical comparison of Puppeteer and Playwright for taking screenshots: API ergonomics, full-page capture, cross-browser support, speed, and when a hosted AP

You've been generating UUID v4 for your primary keys. It works. Nothing is on fire. But your database...

If you have ever mapped out an idea for a mobile app, you probably know exactly how painful the traditional development pipeline is. Continue reading on Medium

"Node.js doesn't make your code run faster — it makes your server stop waiting." ...

El flow completo de auth — login, hashing Argon2id, JWT firma y verificación, RBAC custom apilable,...

After 18+ years in software development, I’ve noticed a pattern. The developers who become architects aren’t necessarily the smartest… Continue reading on Mediu

If you've been building APIs for a while, you already know that writing one that works and writing...

The first time a WebSocket feature broke in production, the logs said everything was fine. Continue reading on Medium »

Building a Japanese text converter with TypeScript, Vite, and crxjs (Manifest V3) Continue reading on ITNEXT »

A practical guide to Sanity scheduled publishing in Next.js: enabling the plugin, polling the Schedule API, and triggering ISR so content goes live on time.

I kept hitting two annoying needs in side projects: Turn a web page into a screenshot or PDF (link...

When I graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering, I imagined my career would revolve around industrial processes, water treatment… Continue reading on Med

A few years ago, I shipped what looked like a textbook, harmless API update. The endpoint returned...

Components of Java Architecture Java architecture consists of three main components and those are...

Architecture of Java Java code compiles into platform-independent bytecode(class). JDK...