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Who Here Has Worked with Legacy? The Longer You Wait, the Worse It Gets

Sylwia LaskowskaJun 18, 2026 • 9 min read

Who Here Has Worked with Legacy? The Longer You Wait, the Worse It Gets

I promised myself that starting this week I'd switch to lighter topics. But on Monday, my JSNation.....

#javascript#webdev#programming#architecture

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Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

Adam - The Developer1d ago • 9 min read

Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

I've been trying to keep my publishing schedule to one article a week, but this one felt too special...

#programming#architecture#typescript#go

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What Is an Array, Really? I'm Writing a Book to Find Out

Genix3d ago • 4 min read

What Is an Array, Really? I'm Writing a Book to Find Out

I've written plenty of code that uses arrays. Looped over them, indexed into them, passed them...

#opensource#computerscience#beginners#architecture

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AI memory should be a product state, not a prompt trick

Yana Li4d ago • 7 min read

AI memory should be a product state, not a prompt trick

I ran into a memory problem while building a reflective AI product. The easy version of AI memory i...

#ai#webdev#architecture#privacy

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You Click "Add to Story" and Instagram Does Way More Than You Think

Ankit Rattan6d ago • 11 min read

You Click "Add to Story" and Instagram Does Way More Than You Think

The other day I was randomly scrolling through Instagram and a question popped into my head: How...

#programming#discuss#api#architecture

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I don't trust the LLM to classify my email. So I don't let it.

yongrean2h ago • 5 min read

I don't trust the LLM to classify my email. So I don't let it.

My classifier calls an LLM on every single email. The LLM is not allowed to classify the email. Tha...

#ai#llm#architecture#opensource

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Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything

Aditya Agarwal4d ago • 3 min read

Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything

There is an increasing trend on the internet stating that in the AI era, code longevity is...

#softwareengineering#ai#architecture#opinion

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Building a Scalable Booking System: From Manual Scheduling to 24/7 Automation

Barberprostudio5d ago • 3 min read

Building a Scalable Booking System: From Manual Scheduling to 24/7 Automation

Building a Scalable Booking System: From Manual Scheduling to 24/7 Automation The...

#architecture#backend#laravel#performance

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Polymarket Architecture Deep Dive 2026: Hybrid CLOB + CTF Design Every Trading Bot Must Understand

FatherSon6d ago • 3 min read

Polymarket Architecture Deep Dive 2026: Hybrid CLOB + CTF Design Every Trading Bot Must Understand

Building a high-performance Polymarket trading bot requires mastering its unique hybrid architecture...

#architecture#blockchain#systemdesign#web3

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LLM Gateways: Routing, Fallbacks, And Semantic Caching

Nazar Boyko5d ago • 10 min read

LLM Gateways: Routing, Fallbacks, And Semantic Caching

Here's a line of code that's quietly running in production at a surprising number of...

#ai#architecture#llm#gateway

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Why Rate Limits Kill Your AI Agents in Production (And the Patterns That Actually Work)

Mudassir Khan3d ago • 7 min read

Why Rate Limits Kill Your AI Agents in Production (And the Patterns That Actually Work)

A post by Mudassir Khan

#agents#api#architecture#llm

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Part 2 — Why Does One System Need Three Chunking Strategies? And One Document Type Shouldn't Be Chunked At All

James Lee6d ago • 9 min read

Part 2 — Why Does One System Need Three Chunking Strategies? And One Document Type Shouldn't Be Chunked At All

This article covers the second layer of the full-stack architecture: the Chunking Service. Chunking....

#ai#architecture#llm#rag

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Part 1 — How Do Unstructured Documents Become a Searchable Knowledge Base? Five Key Engineering Decisions in the Ingestion Pipeline

James Lee6d ago • 9 min read

Part 1 — How Do Unstructured Documents Become a Searchable Knowledge Base? Five Key Engineering Decisions in the Ingestion Pipeline

This article covers the first layer of the full-stack architecture: the Ingestion Pipeline. If this....

#ai#architecture#dataengineering#rag

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Part 5 — Installing a Black Box Recorder in Your RAG System: 4-Layer Metadata + 3-Level Verification, Root Cause in 5 Minutes

James Lee6d ago • 9 min read

Part 5 — Installing a Black Box Recorder in Your RAG System: 4-Layer Metadata + 3-Level Verification, Root Cause in 5 Minutes

This article covers the fifth layer of the full-stack architecture: Full-Chain Traceability. This is...

#ai#architecture#monitoring#rag

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Why Astro Won Me Over: Web Architecture for Performance

Ugur Aslim6d ago • 4 min read

Why Astro Won Me Over: Web Architecture for Performance

How Astro's islands architecture and static-by-default strategy solved real performance bottlenecks ...

#astro#webarchitecture#performance#architecture

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Part 3 — Vector Retrieval in Domain-Specific Terminology Scenarios: From Model Selection to Dual Validation

James Lee6d ago • 10 min read

Part 3 — Vector Retrieval in Domain-Specific Terminology Scenarios: From Model Selection to Dual Validation

This article covers the third layer of the full-stack architecture: the Hybrid Retrieval Layer. Core...

#ai#architecture#nlp#rag

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Data-Oriented Design in C#: Why Objects Are Slowing You Down

Ian Cowley1d ago • 3 min read

Data-Oriented Design in C#: Why Objects Are Slowing You Down

Data-Oriented Design in C#: Why Objects Are Slowing You Down In my previous article, we...

#architecture#csharp#dotnet#performance

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Odejobi Abiola Samuel 3d ago • 2 min read

Client-Side Databases Are Underrated

Most frontend data doesn't need a server round-trip. Form drafts, cached API responses, search index...

#javascript#webdev#architecture#database

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Building An AI Agent Playground Before Giving It Production Access

Nazar Boyko16h ago • 11 min read

Building An AI Agent Playground Before Giving It Production Access

A coding agent runs cleanup_old_records() against what it thinks is a staging database. It isn't. Th...

#ai#architecture#agents#playground

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Somay1d ago • 2 min read

Looking for Internship

This feels very you—build in public, slightly chaotic, honest, and reflective instead of "10 Tips to...

#ai#productivity#automation#architecture

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Migrating a Chrome extension from MV2 to MV3: what broke, how I fixed it, and what I'd do differently

Projekta21d ago • 3 min read

Migrating a Chrome extension from MV2 to MV3: what broke, how I fixed it, and what I'd do differently

Google's Manifest V3 deadline is here. If you have a Chrome extension still running on MV2, you're o...

#mv3#javascript#architecture

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Most PDF Extractors Use the Wrong API: Here’s What We Built Instead

Bonzai2Carn1d ago • 4 min read

Most PDF Extractors Use the Wrong API: Here’s What We Built Instead

TLDR: PDF.js exposes three data sources at three fidelity levels. The industry default is the one...

#pdf#javascript#architecture#webdev

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Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance

Steve Emmerich1d ago • 3 min read

Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance

When people talk about provenance in software systems, they often mean logs. Logs matter. They tell...

#agents#architecture#security#web3

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API Design for AI: Streaming, Structured Output, and Rate Limits

Ugur Aslim3d ago • 5 min read

API Design for AI: Streaming, Structured Output, and Rate Limits

Design patterns for APIs that integrate Claude and other LLMs—handling streaming, enforcing output s...

#apidesign#anthropicclaude#architecture

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Tech Articles

Who Here Has Worked with Legacy? The Longer You Wait, the Worse It Gets

Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

What Is an Array, Really? I'm Writing a Book to Find Out

AI memory should be a product state, not a prompt trick

You Click "Add to Story" and Instagram Does Way More Than You Think

I don't trust the LLM to classify my email. So I don't let it.

Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything

Building a Scalable Booking System: From Manual Scheduling to 24/7 Automation

Polymarket Architecture Deep Dive 2026: Hybrid CLOB + CTF Design Every Trading Bot Must Understand

LLM Gateways: Routing, Fallbacks, And Semantic Caching

Why Rate Limits Kill Your AI Agents in Production (And the Patterns That Actually Work)

Part 2 — Why Does One System Need Three Chunking Strategies? And One Document Type Shouldn't Be Chunked At All

Part 1 — How Do Unstructured Documents Become a Searchable Knowledge Base? Five Key Engineering Decisions in the Ingestion Pipeline

Part 5 — Installing a Black Box Recorder in Your RAG System: 4-Layer Metadata + 3-Level Verification, Root Cause in 5 Minutes

Why Astro Won Me Over: Web Architecture for Performance

Part 3 — Vector Retrieval in Domain-Specific Terminology Scenarios: From Model Selection to Dual Validation

Data-Oriented Design in C#: Why Objects Are Slowing You Down

Client-Side Databases Are Underrated

Building An AI Agent Playground Before Giving It Production Access

Looking for Internship

Migrating a Chrome extension from MV2 to MV3: what broke, how I fixed it, and what I'd do differently

Most PDF Extractors Use the Wrong API: Here’s What We Built Instead

Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance

API Design for AI: Streaming, Structured Output, and Rate Limits