Jan 4 · 4 min read · It was supposed to be a quiet afternoon. "Just a few tweaks," I said. "Maybe nice up the Generation UI a bit." Six hours later, I was staring at a completely rewritten frontend architecture, a split-brain condition in my database layer, and a Markd...
Join discussionJan 5 · 2 min read · If Part 13 was about the where (Postgres), Part 14 is about the who. Specifically: Who owns the data? As we prepared to open-source Asset Hatch, we hit a philosophical wall. Do I really want to store 5,000 AI-generated images of "Cute Slime with a To...
Join discussionJul 8, 2025 · 3 min read · Introduction If you’ve ever worked with IndexedDB, you know it can be a bit painful—lots of boilerplate and a complex API just to do simple things. That’s where Dexie.js comes in. It’s a lightweight wrapper that makes IndexedDB simple, clean, and dev...
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Jun 8, 2025 · 6 min read · In my early career days, I remember seeing one of my seniors open up Jimmy Breck-McKye’s Dead Simple Text Editor during a Google Meet. It was clean, fast, and didn't need logins or installs—just a quick, disposable notepad to share ideas. Something a...
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May 22, 2025 · 3 min read · 💬 Wait... What's This? IndexedDB is a built-in browser feature that lets you store data locally, like for offline support. Sounds great, but it’s a headache to work with. It's full of boilerplate, callbacks, and weird transactions. If you’re not fam...
Join discussionJan 25, 2025 · 4 min read · If you’ve worked with Vue, you know how important reactivity is to building great apps. In this post, I’m going to cover how reactivity works with RxJS - reactivity library, Dexie - IndexedDB wrapper, and TypeScript. A quick overview of the issue You...
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