Web Development
A provocative comparison of React Server Components to classic PHP server rendering, arguing that RSC reintroduces the same paradigm with vastly more complexity, higher costs, and vendor lock-in.
Web Development
A veteran developer's critical look at React's evolution from simple library to complex ecosystem, arguing that component-based architecture, hooks, and useEffect create unnecessary complexity that nobody dares to question.
Web Development
Using IP geolocation to choose a user's display language is a broken assumption disguised as a feature. The Accept-Language header already exists and is far more accurate.
Web Development
A senior developer with 15+ years of experience is asked by their CTO to build a production app using Firebase.studio vibe coding. What follows is a candid account of what works, what breaks, and why AI coding tools still need human expertise.
Web Development
A developer who once built a simple website in a day with PHP now finds himself paralyzed by the overwhelming number of modern technologies, best practices, and tooling choices — a humorous take on analysis paralysis and overengineering.
Web Development
A web developer's rant about the nightmare of supporting 20+ different IE rendering modes, broken compatibility lists, and Microsoft's delusional user-agent decisions.
Web Development
A hilarious collection of GIFs perfectly capturing the everyday moments every developer knows all too well — from fixing bugs at 3 AM to surviving product demos.
Web Development
VKontakte begins displaying upgrade notifications to users of outdated browsers like Internet Explorer 6, with plans to extend warnings to other legacy browser versions.