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Notes from the trenches.

Practical writing on architecture, modernisation and web engineering — no fluff, no reheated tutorials.

September 8, 20264 min read

Next.js and the cost of magic

Next made hard things easy by making simple things opaque. Caching you did not ask for, a router that changed under your feet, and a framework whose best behaviour lives on one host — a field report from years of shipping it.

nextjs · frontend · architecture

August 22, 20264 min read

The quiet cost of running a Node server

Node is a superb place to render a page and a strange place to run a server. The memory you pay for, the one thread you share, the restarts you learn to schedule — and why none of it shows up until the day it does.

backend · performance · architecture

July 28, 20263 min read

Persistent state in React and Next.js, without a store

localStorage plus useState looks like six lines of code — until SSR, tabs, stale data and corrupt JSON show up. What production-grade persistence in React actually takes, and the 1.4 kB shortcut.

react · nextjs · state

July 17, 20264 min read

The European Accessibility Act is being enforced. Is your website in scope?

The EAA stopped being a future problem in June 2025 — 2026 is the year of inspections, warning letters and the first fines. Who's actually in scope, what compliance really means, and why accessibility overlays won't save you.

accessibility · eaa · compliance

July 16, 20263 min read

Persistent state in Vue 3, without reaching for Pinia

Theme, filters, drafts, carts: most 'state management' problems are really persistence problems. How to keep Vue state across reloads and tabs — the hand-rolled way, and the one-line way.

vue · state · front-end

July 6, 20264 min read

Your website's speed is a business number

Slow pages don't feel slow in the office — they feel slow at checkout, on a phone, on hotel Wi-Fi. How speed quietly taxes revenue, how to measure it like Google does, and what actually moves the needle.

performance · web-development · seo

July 4, 20264 min read

Taming a front-end codebase that grew too fast

Your product won, your codebase lost. A practical playbook for bringing a fast-grown front-end back under control — without stopping the roadmap and without the dreaded rewrite.

architecture · front-end · tech-debt