Frontend & Build
Next.js flags, rendering, code blocks, Mermaid, and Lexical.
What Turbopack actually gives you over webpack, and what it broke
Turning on a link Payload already had
You don't need React (until you do)
Why I chose pnpm over the alternatives
I banned type assertions and my "unavoidable" casts turned out to be avoidable
Rendering Mermaid diagrams without a browser
What flipping the Next.js 16.3 flags actually did to this site
Octane compiles the virtual DOM away. Do you need it to?
Getting Markdown into a Lexical editor without the copy-paste dance
It rendered in the playground but not on my site: a Mermaid, ELK, and React story
Making Code Blocks Look Like Code
Getting Back Into Full-Stack