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In-depth guides for teams shipping production systems.
Claim the Mechanism — Patenting software that actually moves the needle
A sharp decision framework for patenting software innovations. When to file, when to publish defensively, when to keep trade secrets—with real examples from edge streaming, LLM prompts, and DOM diffing. Includes a 10-minute go/no-go worksheet you can use before every demo, paper, or release.
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Delete Half Your Frontend: Where HTMX Replaces Your Framework
The Server Is the Framework: HTMX for Modern Web UX. How to decide when HTMX replaces React/Next/Nuxt/SvelteKit, where it fits alongside them, and how to build real, resilient apps with SSE, WebSockets, history, caching, and security.
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The Five-Millisecond Cloud: Rust + WebAssembly Will (Sometimes) Replace Linux Containers — and That's the Point
Why sub-10ms cold starts matter for edge functions and event-driven workloads, even if you still run Postgres in a container.
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Design for Settlement in 2025: A Playbook for Telecom, Banking, and Utilities
Money systems fail when they optimize for screens before they optimize for settlement. Build the billing spine first—immutable events, effective-dated tariffs, a real ledger, and atomic balance updates close to the data—then let everything else hang from that backbone.
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Object-Oriented Programming in 2025: What Still Matters, What Doesn't, and How AI Changes the Game
Object-oriented programming was a beautiful idea that grew forests of inheritance. The question for 2025 isn't whether OOP is 'dead'—it's which parts still pay rent, which are liabilities, and how AI tools reshape the calculus.
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TypeScript in 2025: Types, Runtime, and AI for Real Teams
The familiar TypeScript vs JavaScript debate got reframed by three shifts: AI sits in your editor, runtimes run .ts natively, and team size determines what you actually need. Here's what changed and what to choose.
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API Transport in 2025: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and the Streaming Reality
The web used to be a polite letter exchange. Then AI started talking back mid-sentence, asking for tools, streaming tokens. Choosing API transport is now about choreography: who leads, who follows, and how to keep time when the band is half human, half transformer.
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Game Data in 2025: Storage, Logic, and Latency for Real Players
An opinionated field guide for teams shipping web apps and games right now. Stored procedures are back. JSON meets relational. Edge computing demands logic lives near data.
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