Engineering lessons, product decisions and behind-the-scenes builds.
Runes `$state` and `$derived` collapse years of hooks ceremony into plain JavaScript. Here is what six months of production Svelte 5 taught me.
WebP, font preloads, deferred scripts and aggressive caching turned a 4.2s LCP into 1.1s. The exact checklist that worked.
Shipping a 3D campus for real students taught us import maps, progressive enhancement and why draw calls are sacred.
How TrackSpend detects bank SMS without ever seeing bank data on a server — and why the on-device approach wins.