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Explorations of tools that automate and optimize software build processes. Covers bundlers, compilers, and deployment pipelines with focus on real-world implementation and developer experience.

April 22, 2026

Your Linter Needs to Be as Fast as Your AI

AI writes code faster than you can review it. ESLint validates slower than it needs to. Biome fixes the mismatch.

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January 20, 2026

Why jquery.slim.js?url Behaves Differently in Vite

jquery/dist/jquery.slim.js and jquery/dist/jquery.slim.js?url do completely different things in Vite.

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November 15, 2025

Tailwind v4 + pnpm Monorepos: Missing Classes in Shared

Tailwind v4's automatic detection doesn't see sibling workspace packages. Use @source to fix it.

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November 9, 2025

React Compiler 1.0 - You Can Delete Your useCallback Hooks Now

React Compiler 1.0 shipped in October 2025. Delete most of your React.memo, useCallback, and useMemo calls.

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April 29, 2025

Switching from Node to Bun - Part 2

How to migrate from Node.js to Bun: Step-by-step process, challenges, results, and practical migration insights.

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April 29, 2025

Switching from Node to Bun - Part 1

Why switch from Node.js to Bun: Native File and Glob APIs, dramatic performance gains, and cleaner code. Real benchmarks and examples.

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April 13, 2025

Switching from Webpack to Vite in 2025

Webpack vs Vite 2025: See performance benchmarks (16x faster dev server), code comparison, and migration guide for choosing the right build tool.

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May 27, 2016

Using UglifyJS's screw-ie8 Option in Gulp

If you don't need to support IE8, you can optimize your minified JavaScript with the screw-ie8 flag. Here's how to set it up in Gulp.

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