AI Coding Tools We Actually Use in a Brighton Dev Studio
Six months testing AI coding assistants in production. Real costs, productivity gains, and honest failures from a solo developer in Brighton.
Technical deep-dives, real-world lessons, and honest takes on building modern web and mobile apps.
Mostly for developers. If you're looking for high-level thought leadership, this isn't it. But if you want code snippets, migration gotchas, and practical advice from someone who's actually shipped things—you're in the right place.
Six months testing AI coding assistants in production. Real costs, productivity gains, and honest failures from a solo developer in Brighton.
Biome promised to replace my entire linting/formatting stack with one fast tool. After 3 months on 8 projects, here's whether it lives up to the hype.
Real migration issues we hit upgrading to Next.js 15 and React 19, including async request APIs, caching bugs, and third-party library compatibility problems.
Real migration issues we hit upgrading to Next.js 15 and React 19, including async request APIs, caching bugs, and third-party library compatibility problems.
How React 19's new Actions, useOptimistic, and useActionState hooks simplified our form handling in production apps, with before/after code examples.
PPR in Next.js 15 lets you mix static shells with dynamic content. We rebuilt a client dashboard to test it—load times dropped 60%.
Why Expo's latest updates convinced us to migrate our 'ejected' React Native apps back to managed workflow. Setup time went from 2 days to 20 minutes.
Laravel 11 removed tons of boilerplate. Here's what changed, what we love, and the one thing we miss from Laravel 10.
We migrated our festival app to React Native's new architecture. Performance wins, migration pain points, and why we're not going back.
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