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2026 11

  1. We Put a Browser in Everything and Called It Progress
  2. The Best Thing About Side Projects Is Being Allowed to Care Too Much
  3. My Problem With Omarchy Is What I Like About Arch
  4. We Were Not All Terrible Developers
  5. Jotai 3.0 launched
  6. zenkai Performance: I Wanted My Milliseconds Back
  7. zenkai on Windows: I Just Wanted to Launch an App
  8. zenkai: The App Launcher I Wrote Because I Wanted Something Fast and Beautiful
  9. Most Code Should Be Boring
  10. Why Bun leaving Zig is Great for Zig
  11. In Defense of Manual Memory Management

2025 14

  1. Worse is Better Start Simple and Iterate
  2. AI’s Trap: Settling for Boilerplate Over Elegant Code
  3. Why Zig + Qt Feels Like Doing the Impossible Right
  4. I Miss when Software Ended
  5. Accidentally Made a Zig dotenv Parser
  6. Is Odin Just a More Boring C?
  7. Oct 2, 2025 My Battle Tested React Hooks Are Now Open Source A collection of battle-tested React hooks that I've used in various projects over the years. 7 min
  8. Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools
  9. Are We Chasing Language Hype Over Solving Real Problems?
  10. Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone
  11. Why I Still Reach for C for Certain Projects
  12. Stop Abstracting and Start Programming
  13. In Defense of C++
  14. Zig Error Handling

2024 15

  1. Read Directory Contents With Zig
  2. The Future of Frontend Development
  3. Building Blocks Of Zig: Unions
  4. Jotai atomWithStorage
  5. Building Blocks Of Zig: slices
  6. Building Blocks Of Zig: Understanding Structs
  7. Zig is the Next Big Programming Language
  8. Zig Allocators Explained
  9. React Query Retry explained
  10. Astro is Amazing
  11. April 23, 2024 Three different states - Remote, App, and Local How to structure your state in a way that makes your codebase more maintainable, scalable, and performant. 10 min
  12. Common React Hook Questions
  13. react useDebounce
  14. What Makes Jotai So Amazing?
  15. React goes fullstack

2023 8

  1. Writing Effective Unit Tests
  2. The TypeScript Development Trap You Need to Avoid
  3. Cool Usecases for GitHub
  4. When and how to useMemo
  5. Next.js Layouts Explained
  6. 5 Lesser-Known React Principles That You Should Follow
  7. Designing React Components that are Testable and Maintainable
  8. React Query / Tan Stack Query Explained

2022 8

  1. Harder does not mean better
  2. Open Source your Projects
  3. The Tao of Git: A Guide to Mastering Git
  4. Use React Context for Auth
  5. 5 Essential Tips for Custom React Hooks
  6. How granular should components be?
  7. How and when to use React Context
  8. 7 Steps to become a better react developer

2019 1

  1. Make a URL Shortener in C#