9h ago · 5 min read · So I saw a thread recently where a developer got marked down in a course for suggesting WebSockets and TCP as the foundation for a chat application. The instructor insisted that PHP was the only valid approach for web development. Look, I'm not here ...
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1d ago · 4 min read · Your AI assistant is mid-sentence explaining a complex debugging strategy. The user refreshes the page. The response starts over from the beginning, or worse, vanishes entirely. This isn't a model pro
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3d ago · 4 min read · When your real-time chat application grows from a handful of concurrent users to tens of thousands, the architecture decisions you made on day one start to crack. Single-server WebSocket setups hit co
Join discussion6d ago · 5 min read · On a sunny day, you're drinking your sweet bitter coffee, relaxed like the potato you are. A sudden footstep approaches — it's your manager, with that look on their face. You know the one. "The client
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Mar 11 · 10 min read · The Real-Time Communication Spectrum in Enterprise .NET Before any architecture decision, teams need a shared frame of reference. Real-time communication in ASP.NET Core sits on a spectrum from raw bi
Join discussionMar 8 · 9 min read · A loading spinner is not a UX strategy. In my previous post, I argued that production AI behaves like a contract, not a conversation. We used Zod to keep LLM outputs from breaking Node.js systems, tha
Join discussionFeb 27 · 12 min read · I Built a Synchronized YouTube Watch Party App From Scratch A few weeks ago I was on a call with a friend and we wanted to watch the same YouTube video together. Every solution we found was either beh
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Feb 18 · 3 min read · Today, we’re going to look at WebSockets. This is the tech that makes multiplayer games, chat apps, and live stock tickers actually work. We’ll also look at Socket.io, which is basically the cheat code for making WebSockets easy to use. We’ll keep th...
Join discussionFeb 17 · 9 min read · It started with a simple observation: some WebSocket messages arrived on the server, and others didn't. I was building Synckit, a real-time sync SDK that uses CRDTs for conflict-free collaboration. The demo app, LocalWrite, is a collaborative documen...
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