From 1.2GB to 24MB: How I Sped Up Our Next.js CI/CD Pipeline by 4 in One Afternoon
The Situation Our team's CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps was taking 15 minutes to complete on every push to develop. You'd merge a PR, grab a coffee, c…
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NextAuth v5 sessions: JWT or database? Untangling the adapter-driven switch with a production config
This is a translation of my original article in Japanese: Qiita I run NextAuth (Auth.js) v5 in two indie products (web + iOS). They work, but for a lo…
10 Next.js Performance Mistakes That Slow Down Production Apps
A Next.js application can feel fast during development and still become painfully slow after deployment. Local development usually runs with a small d…
You Should Own Your UI Components, Not Just Install Them
One of my favorite ideas behind shadcn/ui has nothing to do with components. It's about ownership. Unlike most UI libraries, shadcn/ui doesn't ask you…
How We Cut Our Homepage TTFB from 800ms to Under 200ms (and Refreshed the Hero While We Were At It)
How We Cut Our Homepage TTFB from 800ms to Under 200ms (and Refreshed the Hero While We Were At It) Our homepage was fine. It loaded. It had words on …
1 Startup Series: Connecting my Admin frontend to the backend
Published on Feb 16th, 2023 My solar e nergy startup platform FasoLara has reached a new milestone recently and I decided to start a new blog series a…
Coverage Before Creativity: The RAG Gate That Keeps My Blog Pipeline Honest
The first failure I had to eliminate in the blog pipeline was not a bad paragraph. It was a bad evidence set. The system was finding a few nearby chun…
Free Website Performance Monitoring: PageSpeed CI + CrUX + GitHub Actions
Commercial performance monitoring starts at $29-99/month. With Google PageSpeed API + GitHub Actions, you get continuous monitoring at $0. The Need Af…
How I Built a Peptide Dosage Calculator with Next.js — and Why SSR Matters More Than You Think
A researcher spends 30 seconds doing peptide math before every injection. I built a tool that does it instantly. Here's the surprising thing I learned…
AI Writes Code Now, So Why Is Everything Still Broken?
We're living in a strange time. On one hand, AI tools are spitting out functional code snippets, generating entire components, and even debugging our …
Advanced Server-Side Caching Patterns in Next.js for Scalable Applications
Originally published on tamiz.pro . Next.js has become a powerhouse for building performant web applications, thanks to its hybrid rendering capabilit…
Performance Tuning Before Launch
In A Production Security Checklist , I walked through what to lock down before opening the doors to real users. Security is a pass/fail gate: you eith…
Strict Null Checks in TypeScript: What the Compiler Won't Tell You and Where It Actually Hurts in Production
Strict Null Checks in TypeScript: What the Compiler Won't Tell You and Where It Actually Hurts in Production I was reviewing a Server Action in Next.j…
Break Up Your React App: Micro-Frontends with Next.js 🧩
The Frontend Monolith Bottleneck Backend architectures evolved from monoliths to decoupled services years ago, but the frontend was largely left behin…
Webhooks and on-demand revalidation: keep your headless site fresh without full rebuilds
Originally published on nomacms.com . I work on NomaCMS . Static and ISR sites are fast because they cache content. That same cache is why your homepa…
I spent 2 days debugging why Google wouldn't index my new SaaS — the bug was in my own canonical tags
Launched a new site two days ago and Google Search Console showed zero indexing. Spent longer than I'd like to admit assuming it was just "new domain,…
Why I Designed an Invite-Code Board With No Cash Rewards
The first real design decision I made for my invite-code board wasn't about the UI or the database — it was a refusal to let a single yen ever change …
Building an AI-Ready SaaS Discovery Engine with Next.js, PostgreSQL, and MCP
Software discovery used to be a straightforward search problem. A user typed a category, opened a few result pages, compared features, and selected a …
Vite SPA vs Next.js SSR: Real Performance Differences After Migration (With Benchmarks)
The Architectural Shift: Client-Side vs Server-Side For years, the standard for building modern React applications was the Single Page Application (SP…
How I built a suite of self-destructing web tools on Cloudflare (solo, free tier)
Most cloud tools are built around saving things. But a lot of the time I don't want to save anything — I just want to hand something off for a few min…
Server Components vs Client Components: The Mental Model Shift Every Vite Developer Needs
Introduction If you have been building applications using Vite and standard React for the last few years, you’ve likely mastered the Single Page Appli…
I Built a BPS Website: Build, Push, Sleep
What is a BPS website? BPS stands for Build , Push , Sleep . It's a simple framework I use for shipping side projects: Build it fast with AI assistanc…
How to Review a Signup Regression After a Next.js Release
A signup regression after a Next.js release should not start with panic. It should start with a narrow review. The dangerous version is familiar: a de…
SSG vs SSR vs CSR in Next.js: Choosing the Right Rendering Strategy for SEO
Is Next.js Really SEO-Friendly? Understanding SSG, SSR, ISR and CSR Thanks @opacedigitalagency for the valuable suggestion. While exploring this topic…
useFormState and useFormStatus in Next.js App Router — React 19 Form Handling
React 19 introduced two hooks specifically for server action forms: useFormState and useFormStatus . Together they solve the main UX problems with for…
What actually crosses the React Server Component boundary
Everyone can type "use client" . Almost nobody can say what survives the trip across it — and then something breaks: next build dies at prerender, the…
Next.js ISR and On-Demand Revalidation — Caching Without Staleness
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is one of the more powerful caching strategies in Next.js — and one that's often misconfigured in ways that eith…
Better Auth Joins Vercel
📣 A quick note before we get started: I'm moving this newsletter from Kit to a new platform soon. You don't need to do anything, if you want to keep r…
How I Built an AI-Powered Reverse Hiring Platform with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI
# How I Built an AI-Powered Reverse Hiring Platform with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI The hiring process is fundamentally broken. Candidates send hun…
Postgres in Rust: Is This The Future For Your Next.js SaaS?
Okay, so you know how we're all constantly chasing that elusive perfect stack? My usual go-to involves Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase for the backend h…