How We Migrated a Client from WordPress to a Custom Next.js Storefront
Last year, a client came to Paradane with a WordPress/WooCommerce store that was buckling under growth. Page loads were hitting 6 seconds, the checkou…
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I'm Building an Infinite Full-Stack Assembly Line (And Why the Boilerplate Market is Dead)
Every developer knows the absolute worst part of starting a new software project.It isn't writing the features, designing the UI, or talking to users.…
React 19 Hydration Mismatch in Static Export
📚 This is Part 3 of the UtlKit Tech Series — Part 2 covers the architecture & trade-offs → Read Part 2 React 19 Static Export Hydration Mismatch? …
Generating valid .ics calendar feeds at build time
A few weeks ago I shipped a feature I'd been putting off because it felt like it needed a backend: subscribable calendar feeds. "Add this holiday to G…
Portable: A Financial Platform for Gig Workers (HackNomics 2025)
What it is Portable is a financial platform I built for HackNomics 2025, aimed at the 70 million Americans working in the gig economy. The core idea: …
Next.js + Supabase Performance Optimization: From Slow to Lightning Fast
Next.js + Supabase Performance Optimization: From Slow to Lightning Fast Last month, I optimized a Next.js + Supabase application that was frustrating…
Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #026 — Next.js Turbopack Denied-Path Watcher Boundary
Target: vercel/next.js Issue: vercel/next.js#81161 PR: vercel/next.js#94735 Field Lab: https://github.com/scarab-systems/scarab-field-lab This field t…
The Weekend I Finally Finished 17 Projects
You know that feeling when you open a folder you haven't touched in months and find... yourself? Not metaphorically. I mean literally — old projects y…
I automated my Gumroad product screenshots with Playwright
I automated my Gumroad product screenshots with Playwright I recently started packaging a few small frontend projects as digital products, and one sur…
Building GeoPrizm: Turning Global News Events into a Bilateral Relations Index
I recently built GeoPrizm , a free and open-source dashboard for tracking bilateral relations through global news event signals. The idea is simple: i…
Full-Stack with Next.js — From React Dev to Full-Stack Engineer
Read Time: ~15 minutes | The bridge from React UI library to production full-stack framework Prerequisites : React fundamentals, hooks, state manageme…
Field Test #020b — Next.js Root Ownership Refinement
The first version of the patch treated the issue as a nearest-root problem. That was too broad. The failure in #92978 involved a stray parent lockfile…
60fps Real-Time Graphics: OffscreenCanvas in Next.js ⚡
The Interactive Dashboard Bottleneck Modern enterprise platforms at Smart Tech Devs demand high-density data visualizations. We build tracking spaces …
How I Built a Free SEO Audit Tool with Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe in 1 Week
Last weekend I started building SiteGrade — a free instant SEO audit tool that gives any website an A–F letter grade and the top fixes ranked by impac…
Add an onboarding tour to any React/Next.js app in 5 minutes
Add an onboarding tour to any React/Next.js app in 5 minutes Most apps have zero onboarding. Users land on your dashboard, look around confused, and l…
From Native WordPress to Headless: The Real Engineering Decisions Behind a Production Migration
Every headless WordPress conversation starts the same way — someone draws an architecture diagram with arrows pointing from a REST API to a shiny Next…
How I Fixed Canonical URLs Pointing to Localhost in Next.js
Next.js sites using process.env.SITE_URL || 'http://localhost:3000' as a canonical URL fallback will fail Google indexing entirely. The fix: one centr…
Qisquiz: A Quiz App for Learning Qiskit v2.X
Qisquiz: A Quiz App for Learning Qiskit v2.X I recently built Qisquiz , a quiz-based learning app for people studying Qiskit v2.X and preparing for th…
Integrating Webpay Plus into a modern stack
If you've ever worked on an e-commerce project in Chile, sooner or later you bump into Transbank. There's no avoiding it. I built a reference template…
Paddle Billing plus Next.js 16: The complete guide nobody wrote and the mistakes that cost me a week
If you've tried to integrate Paddle Billing with Next.js and hit confusing walls, this guide is for you. I spent an embarrassing amount of time gettin…
Visual regression testing for modern web apps: strategies, tooling, and a practical pipeline
Visual regression testing for modern web apps: strategies, tooling, and a practical pipeline Visual regression testing for modern web apps: strategies…
Building KindaSeen with FastAPI, Next.js, and PostgreSQL
“Did We Already Watch This?” — Building KindaSeen with FastAPI and Next.js A few months ago, my friends and I kept running into the same question when…
From 0 to 27K Search Impressions on a Developer Portfolio in 90 Days
I rebuilt my portfolio site earlier this year. Three months later, Google Search Console showed 27,000 impressions and 46 clicks. Not viral numbers, b…
Next.js SaaS Boilerplate with BetterAuth, RBAC, i18n & Production-Ready Setup
Every time I started a new Next.js project, I lost the first week to setup. Authentication. Internationalization. Role-based access. SEO meta tags. En…
How to optimize application performance — a hands on tutorial
How to optimize application performance — a hands on tutorial Performance Optimization: Measure Before You Optimize Donald Knuth's famous warning-"pre…
I'm 15, Built My First Real Project in 4 Days, and Put It on Gumroad
I'm 15 and Built an AI Energy Dashboard with Next.js 15 + Groq Hey Dev.to! 👋 I'm a 15-year-old student developer from South Korea. I just finished my …
5 walls I hit shipping an AI reading app from West Africa (and what I'd tell past-me)
I'm a maxillofacial surgeon in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — and a self-taught builder who's been coding since medical school. Over evenings and weekend…
I Built an AI Job Hunting Platform for Sweden in 2 Weeks — Here's What I Learned
When a friend told me she'd been job hunting in Sweden for six months without a single interview callback, I assumed it was a skills problem. It wasn'…
I shipped super-time-tracker-ui, a local web UI for my CLI time sheets
The short version If you live in the terminal but still wish your time sheets had a real interface, I built the thing for you. It's called super-time-…
How to Build an Affiliate Program in Next.js (The Clean Way)
You're shipping a Next.js SaaS. You want affiliates. You look at Rewardful — $49/month. FirstPromoter — $89/month. Impact — "contact sales." All of th…