Framework comparisons, tool evaluations, and takes that ship.
Biome is 25x faster than ESLint + Prettier. A senior dev's honest take on three wins, two dealbreakers, and the real migration cost math.
Turborepo vs Nx in 2026: under 8 devs pick Turborepo, 20+ pick Nx. Caching benchmarks, migration costs, and the team-size threshold — with receipts.
Web components vs React in 2026: where native components win, 3 times React still dominates, and a decision framework that cuts through the tribalism.
Stop asking monolith or microservices. Answer 3 questions: independent scaling? 50+ engineers? Clear domain boundaries? If not, modular monolith wins.
4 diagnostic questions that decide whether htmx or React ships faster for your project. No tribalism, no encyclopedia — just a decision framework.
93% of teams still use REST. A senior dev names the 3 cases where GraphQL is worth the complexity — and the migration costs nobody puts in the proposal.
Vibe coding outperforms you on 3 tasks and gets you fired on 3 others. A senior dev's honest framework for knowing the difference before you ship.
Bun is 3.7x faster in benchmarks and basically identical in production. Here's the migration cost math every comparison skips.
Real cost math, cold start benchmarks, and the CPU billing trap nobody warns you about. A senior dev's decision framework for edge functions vs serverless.
Your ORM is fine — until it isn't. EXPLAIN output showing where ORMs cost you, a decision framework for when to drop to raw SQL, and a clean hybrid pattern.