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Server-Sent Events Beat WebSockets for 80% of My AI Streaming UIs: 5 Patterns
Server-Sent Events handle 80% of AI streaming UIs with one HTTP connection and zero WebSocket overhead. 5 production patterns with code.
Read articleClaude Security Goes Public Beta: Repo Scanning, Vuln Explainer, Patch Guidance
Claude Security entered public beta on May 2026, scanning repos and explaining vulnerabilities for Claude Enterprise customers only Three core capabilities ship now: full repo...
PostHog Error Tracking Killed My Sentry Bill
Sentry cost me 80 EUR/month for ~12k errors that PostHog now catches on the free tier posthog-js already loaded on the storefront, so error tracking...
Shopify Functions Replaced 8 Apps In One Saturday
Cancelled 8 paid apps in one Saturday and dropped 180 EUR/month off the app bill to zero recurring spend Shopify Functions ship as compiled wasm...
Bun Shell Replaced Every Bash Script in My Studio
I deleted 1,400 lines of bash and 23 scripts, replaced by 600 lines of Bun Shell TypeScript Bun Shell ($`...`) gives typed args, automatic escaping,...
Neon Database Branching Saved Me 200 EUR Every Month
I run 14 Neon database branches per project for the price of one Postgres instance Neon copy-on-write branching clones a 12 GB database in under...
5 Vercel Edge Config Patterns I Use For Shopify A/B Tests
Edge Config reads in ~15ms at the edge, no cold start, no extra request to Shopify I cut a 50 EUR/month LaunchDarkly bill to 0...
The 6 Vite Plugins That Replaced My Webpack Config
I cut 11 Webpack plugins down to 6 Vite plugins and dev startup dropped from 4.2s to 0.8s vite-plugin-checker runs TypeScript and ESLint in a...
5 Cloudflare Workers Patterns I Use for Shopify Edge Logic
5 production Cloudflare Workers patterns for Shopify backends: A/B testing, geo banners, signed customer URLs, AI personalization, webhook buffer queues.
Bun's Test Runner Replaced Vitest in My New Projects
Bun's built-in test runner runs 5-15x faster than Vitest, ships zero-config snapshots and coverage. Migration in 30 minutes, where Vitest still wins.
TypeScript Decorators Finally Shipped: What Changed in 2026
Stage 3 decorators in TypeScript 5+ are stable in 2026. Migration from legacy, 5 production patterns, and where they belong now.
The 5 Postgres Extensions Every Shopify Backend Needs
pg_cron, pgvector, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw. The five extensions that turn generic Postgres into a Shopify-aware database.