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A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.

Laravel 13 Vector Search: Semantic Queries Without a Search Service thumbnail

developmentNov 9, 2026· 4 min

Laravel 13 Vector Search: Semantic Queries Without a Search Service

Laravel 13 adds whereVectorSimilarTo, vector columns, and an AsVector cast, so meaning-based search can live in the Postgres or MariaDB database you run.

Oxlint JS Plugins: Your Custom ESLint Rules No Longer Keep You on ESLint thumbnail

developmentNov 5, 2026· 4 min

Oxlint JS Plugins: Your Custom ESLint Rules No Longer Keep You on ESLint

Oxlint now runs ESLint plugins and your own custom rules, so the last excuse for a slow lint step is gone. Here's how JS plugins work and where the gaps are.

Subpath Imports With #/: The Path Alias Node Actually Understands thumbnail

developmentOct 22, 2026· 4 min

Subpath Imports With #/: The Path Alias Node Actually Understands

Node 24.14 and TypeScript 6.0 allow a bare #/ prefix in package.json imports. Here's how one alias can replace tsconfig paths, Vite aliases, and build rewrites.

Svelte Error Boundaries: Contain the Crash Instead of Losing the Page thumbnail

developmentOct 15, 2026· 4 min

Svelte Error Boundaries: Contain the Crash Instead of Losing the Page

One flaky widget shouldn't blank your whole app. Here's how Svelte's boundary element walls off failures, shows loading UI for await, and works during SSR.

Dependency Cooldowns: Make Your Package Manager Wait Before It Trusts New Code thumbnail

developmentOct 12, 2026· 4 min

Dependency Cooldowns: Make Your Package Manager Wait Before It Trusts New Code

npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun can all refuse package versions that are only hours old. Here's how each release-age gate works, why units differ, and where CI bites.

Your tsconfig Is Still Written for TypeScript 5. Here's the Cleanup TS 7 Forces thumbnail

developmentOct 1, 2026· 4 min

Your tsconfig Is Still Written for TypeScript 5. Here's the Cleanup TS 7 Forces

TypeScript 6 flipped half a dozen compiler defaults and TypeScript 7 deleted deprecated options. Here's the tsconfig audit for the native compiler.

Node.js Type Stripping: Run TypeScript Without a Build Step thumbnail

developmentSep 28, 2026· 3 min

Node.js Type Stripping: Run TypeScript Without a Build Step

Node.js now runs .ts files by erasing types, not compiling them. Here's what that buys you, what it refuses to do, and the tsconfig that keeps you honest.

Compression Dictionaries: Ship Only the Diff When Your Bundle Changes thumbnail

developmentSep 27, 2026· 4 min

Compression Dictionaries: Ship Only the Diff When Your Bundle Changes

Compression Dictionary Transport (RFC 9842) lets the browser tell your server which file it has cached, so a redeployed bundle can arrive as a tiny delta.

import defer: Lazy Modules Without Going Async thumbnail

developmentSep 21, 2026· 3 min

import defer: Lazy Modules Without Going Async

ES2026's import defer evaluates a module the first time you touch its namespace, not at startup, so heavy work leaves the cold path without going async.

Turbopack's Persistent Build Cache Only Helps If Your CI Keeps It thumbnail

developmentSep 20, 2026· 4 min

Turbopack's Persistent Build Cache Only Helps If Your CI Keeps It

Next.js 16.3 turned on Turbopack's persistent build cache with claimed speedups up to 5.5x. Most CI pipelines see none of it, because containers start empty.

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