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Technical writing on React, Next.js, and building for scale

Hiring

How to Hire a Senior React Developer Remotely: A Practical Guide

Screening signals that predict real performance, interview loops seniors respect, and the contract models that work — from someone on the other side of the table.

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Next.js

Next.js App Router in Production: Lessons from Real Client Projects

Server-first thinking, caching as an architectural decision, and migration pacing — what the App Router looks like after the honeymoon.

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Architecture

Building a Hospital ERP Frontend with a 9-Developer Team

Scaling a frontend team from 3 to 9 developers on a healthcare ERP: the conventions, review discipline, and healthcare-specific constraints that made it work.

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React

Real-Time Dashboards with Socket.IO and React: Patterns That Survive Production

Singleton connections, snapshot-plus-patch state, backpressure batching, and honest failure states — from ten months on an aviation operations dashboard.

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TypeScript

TypeScript Patterns That Keep Large React Codebases Maintainable

Domain types as a single source of truth, discriminated unions for UI state, and the strictness config that holds the line on team projects.

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AI & Workflow

AI-Assisted Development in Production: Speed Without the Technical Debt

What Claude Code and Cursor genuinely accelerate, what still needs a senior engineer, and the review discipline that keeps generated code shippable.

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Hiring

Freelancer vs Agency vs In-House: Choosing Frontend Help for Your Startup

Each model is right in a specific situation and expensive in the others. An honest comparison of cost, speed, risk, and the hybrid setups that actually work.

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Next.js

5 Next.js Optimizations That Cut Our Load Time by 60%

Real techniques I used on production apps: image optimization, bundle analysis, route prefetching, and server components.

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Performance

Core Web Vitals in 2026: What Actually Moves the Needle

LCP is usually the image, INP is usually a long task, CLS is usually unreserved space. Field-data-first fixes that survive feature work.

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React

How I Structure React Components for Teams of 10+

The folder structure, naming conventions, and patterns that prevent spaghetti code as your team and codebase grow.

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Hiring

Retainer vs Project: How Smart Teams Hire Senior Developers

Why European startups are switching from project-based to retainer models — and what to look for in a retainer developer.

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Animation

Framer Motion: Animations That Actually Feel Good

The difference between animations that impress and ones that annoy — with patterns from production projects.

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