It was 3 AM, and my phone buzzed with an AWS alert I never wanted to see: “$18,452.93 — Forecasted Spend.” My stomach dropped. For a side project with less than 10 users, this was a catastrophe.
Data fetching is one of the most fundamental skills in modern React development. Whether you’re building dashboards, blogs, authentication systems, or e-commerce stores — your app almost always needs to get data from somewhere outside itself.
In today’s session, I focused on understanding what data fetching actually is, why we need it, and how to use fe...
Part of The Coercion Saga — making AI write quality code.
Quality gates catch syntax. Tests catch behavior. A function that type-checks but returns garbage is worse than one that fails to compile.
Fas...
My child asked ChatGPT about snakes. What came back wasn't a fun fact about how snakes shed their skin or where they live. It was a detailed description of the world's most dangerous snakes, how they kill, and which ones could be found nearby.
Weeks of nightmares followed. Anxiety at bedtime. Questions I wasn't ready to answer.
That's when it hit me: AI isn't built for children....
I’m a new inspirering front-end developer. How is the job market at this moment?
Most mobile teams obsess over features, onboarding flows, and experiments but there’s a simpler problem that quietly decides whether any of those things even matter:
how long it takes your app to show the first screen.
Before a user signs up, taps a CTA, or sees your UI, they wait through startup. And that wait is surprisingly unforgiving. If nothing appears for a c...