WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and HTTP Long Polling
A practical guide to real-time data delivery in web apps, comparing WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and HTTP long polling, and when to use each.
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Load Testing Your Website in 2026
A modern, practical guide to load testing web applications using Siege, k6, and Vegeta, updated for contemporary development workflows.
State Machines in Practice: Advantages, Disadvantages, and a TypeScript Example
A practical, engineer-friendly look at state machines: why they’re great, where they hurt, and a clean TypeScript finite-state-machine example.
AI’s Energy Bottleneck: Powering Intelligence on a Finite Planet
As AI scales, energy, not algorithms, may become the limiting factor. A high-level look at today’s constraints and how they could be overcome.
Accessible Markup for a Speech Input Button
A practical pattern for an accessible speech input trigger button: native button semantics, toggle state, live regions, and error announcements.
Green builds or it doesn’t ship: why teams must keep tests passing
Flaky tests, often caused by non-deterministic fake data, destroy trust in CI. Here’s how to enforce ‘always green’ and stabilise your suite.
Trunk-Based Development: When It Works, When It Doesn’t
A practical, opinionated guide to trunk-based development for experienced engineers and engineering managers, covering prerequisites, team size, benefits, and failure modes.
Web Accessibility in the Age of AI Chat
How to structure blog content and embedded AI chat for maximum accessibility, and why good accessibility is now the foundation for AI-readable websites.