Learnings from the field
Notes
Build MCP Servers on Your Favorite Stack
MCP servers don't play nicely with Bun and Hono out of the box. Vercel's mcp-handler fixes that. Here's exactly how I set it up.
Read (4 min) →Stream AI Responses in Production
Batch responses make AI feel slow. Streaming fixes the perception problem. Here's the pattern I use with Hono and the Vercel AI SDK.
Read (2 min) →How I Actually Use Claude Code
Not as an autocomplete. Not as a search engine. Here's the workflow that makes it genuinely useful for production engineering.
Read (3 min) →Cypress.io in a React App in Under 5 Minutes
How to install Cypress, write your first test, test UI interactions, and verify mobile layouts — all in a React app you can clone and run today.
Read (2 min) →Progressive Image Loading with Cloudinary
How to use Cloudinary's real-time image transformations to serve low-quality placeholders before high-quality images load — reducing flicker, bandwidth, and perceived wait time.
Read (2 min) →Running Nuxt in Parallel with Express
How to wire Nuxt and Express together so you get server-side rendering for the frontend and a real API layer on the backend — both in one Node process.
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