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Best Practices

Code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering habits that hold up over time.

Practices6 min

TypeScript Patterns That Make Your Codebase Easier to Live With

Beyond the basics — a handful of TypeScript patterns that pay rent every day, including discriminated unions, branded types, and how to stop fighting the compiler.

March 29, 2026
Practices7 min

Designing a Database Schema You Won't Regret in Six Months

Schema design choices are quiet for the first month and loud for the next five years. A practical guide to the decisions that matter most early.

March 21, 2026
Practices6 min

How to Write React Components That Don't Get Refactored Twice

Concrete patterns for writing React components that survive contact with a real codebase — composition, prop design, and the small habits that prevent rewrites.

March 13, 2026
Practices7 min

Debugging Modern Web Apps: A Field Guide

A real toolkit for finding bugs in 2026 — DevTools tactics, network inspection, source maps, structured logs, and the discipline that turns hours of guessing into ten minutes of looking.

March 9, 2026
Practices6 min

How to Use Git Confidently in a Team

Beyond add, commit, push — the Git workflows, recovery techniques, and team conventions that prevent the late-night merge disasters.

March 5, 2026
Practices6 min

Monolith vs Microservices: When to Choose What

An honest look at the architectural debate that won't go away — when a monolith is the right call, when microservices earn their complexity, and the modular middle ground most teams should start with.

March 1, 2026
Practices6 min

Effective Code Reviews That Don't Drain Your Team

How to give and receive code reviews that improve quality, raise people up, and don't turn into bottlenecks. Specific habits, anti-patterns, and the language that defuses friction.

February 21, 2026
Practices7 min

Building Accessible Web Apps: A Practical Guide

Accessibility isn't checklist work — it's product quality. A working developer's guide to the WCAG basics, the tools that catch most issues, and the patterns that hold up.

February 9, 2026