Next.js
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Infinite scroll that doesn't break the back button
Most infinite scroll implementations lose your place the moment you open a post and come back. Here's the fix, and why it needs both a cursor and a cache.
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Writing · 12 posts
Notes on building for the web
Mostly frontend architecture, performance and the parts of accessibility that keep coming up. Long enough to be useful, short enough to finish.
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React
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Server Components changed how I think about data fetching
After a year of App Router work, the biggest shift wasn't the rendering model. It was deleting most of my client state.
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Performance2 min
A pragmatic guide to Core Web Vitals on a large content site
Field data on a 4,000-page enterprise site, what actually moved the numbers, and the two things that turned out to be a waste of time.
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Design Systems
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Design tokens are a contract, not a colour palette
The moment tokens stop being a list of hex values and start being a set of promises, the whole system gets easier.
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Testing
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Playwright: the setup decisions that mattered a year later
Two projects, two very different Playwright setups. The differences that seemed cosmetic at the start turned out to decide whether anyone trusted the suite.
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