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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.

Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.

  • Jul 10, 2024

    🚀 Node Modules Now Faster On Windows With Dev Drive

    No one knows about the new feature in Windows called dev drive that can boost node_modules and other monstrosities

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    🚀 Node Modules Now Faster On Windows With Dev Drive
  • Feb 13, 2024

    Express.js Got Flooded With Pull Requests. An Idea To Ban India Strongly Rejected

    Open source is a quite calm place on the internet. Rarely anything exciting happens there. Except releases and occasional heated…

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    Express.js Got Flooded With Pull Requests. An Idea To Ban India Strongly Rejected
  • Sep 6, 2023

    Node.js 20.6.0 Now Supports .Env Files

    Node.js is catching the breath after Deno.js run adding built-in support for environment files. No more dotenv dependencies necessary.

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    Node.js 20.6.0 Now Supports .Env Files
  • Apr 18, 2023

    🕸️ Node.js 20 Released: Experimental Perms, new V8, and Single Executable Apps

    An hour ago, the release of Node.js was announced. Let’s see what’s new in this release.

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    🕸️ Node.js 20 Released: Experimental Perms, new V8, and Single Executable Apps

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