Server-Driven UI in 22 lines of TypeScript
Move the layout decision out of the clients and into the API. One JSON contract; every client renders it in its own programming language or framework.
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· seoAstro SEO Checklist 2026: 20 tactics ranked by impact
Astro SEO checklist for 2026: 20 tactics ranked from biggest to smallest impact, including canonical URLs, title tag rules, JSON-LD structured data, Person and BreadcrumbList schema, llms.txt, Pagefind search, and a Zod schema that caught 10 bugs in my podcast frontmatter.
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· aiHow to make your app agent-ready
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What's actually new in JavaScript (and what's coming next)
ES2025 is out, ES2026 is close. Here is the new feature of Javascript we can use today, what is coming next and how we can get our AI friends to use these new features
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My blog got popular, and my bandwidth exploded to ~300GB in just 10 days
This made me take a good, hard look at my Astro blog and start optimizing: assets, headers, caching, CDN. Here is exactly what I did to fix it.
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· reactNow more then ever, you need to master custom ESLint rules
I spent three days building a custom ESLint rule and accidentally learned how JavaScript actually works. ESLint is just walking your code's syntax tree and running functions against each node. Once you see it, you can enforce any coding standard automatically instead of arguing about it in PR reviews.
🎙️ Latest Podcast Episodes
Explore conversations with senior engineers about scaling applications, teams, and careers.
Episode 30
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Tyler Benfield, Staff Software Engineer at Prisma, to go deep on database performance. Tyler's path into databases started at Penske Racing, writing trackside software for NASCAR pit stops, and eventually led him into query optimization, connection pooling, and building Prisma Postgres from scratch. From the most common ORM anti-patterns to scaling Postgres on bare metal with memory snapshots, this is the database conversation most frontend developers never get.
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Episode 29
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Corbin Crutchley — lead maintainer of TanStack Form, Microsoft MVP, VP of Engineering, and author of a free book that teaches React, Angular, and Vue simultaneously — to dig into what it actually means to maintain a library that gets a million downloads a week. Corbin covers the origin of TanStack Form, why versioning is a social contract, what nearly made him quit open source, and the surprisingly non-technical path that got him into a VP role.
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Episode 28
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Andrey Sitnik — creator of PostCSS, AutoPrefixer, and Browserslist, and Lead Engineer at Evil Martians — to explore how one developer became responsible for 0.7% of all npm downloads. Andrey shares the discrimination story that drove AutoPrefixer, the open pledge that forced PostCSS 8 to ship, and why the Mythical Man-Month applies directly to LLM agent coordination.
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Episode 27
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Aurora Scharff — Senior Consultant at Creon Consulting, Microsoft MVP in Web Technologies, and React Certifications Lead at certificates.dev — to explore the real mental model shift required to understand React Server Components. Aurora shares her path from Robotics to frontend, what it was like building a controller UI for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog in React, and why the ecosystem finally feels like it's stabilizing.
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