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Advanced Slop Prevention Techniques
Slop is born from unverified code. Here's a pipeline of increasingly independent gates, from cross-model review to deterministic audits to manual QA, where each gate is harder to talk its way past than the one before.
Read More →Fat Skills, Thin Harness, No Terminal
Tan's fat-skills/thin-harness architecture maps almost one-to-one onto an AI coworker for non-developers. The catch: when users don't have a repo, skills can't be files. Skills have to be the product.
Read More →ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Render Markdown in the Browser. I Don't
The big AI chat apps ship heavy rendering libraries to every device. Cheddy Chat renders markdown server-side and streams finished HTML, eliminating 160-440KB of client JavaScript while keeping the main thread free.
Read More →Progressive Complexity: When Islands Should be a Continent
Level 4 excels for isolated rich components, but heavy coordination signals when to intentionally escalate to a unified framework.
Read More →Production-Ready Astro Middleware: Dependency Injection, Testing, and Performance
Master production-ready Astro middleware with dependency injection, testing strategies, and caching for enterprise applications.
Read More →Introducing hx-optimistic: Make Your HTMX Apps Feel Instant
Make HTMX apps feel instant with optimistic UI: instant feedback, automatic rollbacks, and no frameworks required, just simple declarative HTML.
Read More →A Progressive Complexity Manifesto
A manifesto for progressive web complexity. Reject the false binary between static sites and SPAs. Embrace the powerful middle ground with server-rendered HTML, HTMX, and intentional complexity escalation.
Read More →Architecting with Constraints: A Pragmatic Guide
Don't just reach for your favorite framework. Let's explore how a constraint-based mindset can help you choose the right tool for the job and avoid over-engineering.
Read More →Building a Modern Frontend Event System from Scratch
From spaghetti code to clean, decoupled code: building a powerful event system that scales with your application
Read More →Our Fullstack Architecture: Eta, HTMX, and Lit
Why choose between a fast MPA and a rich SPA? Our fullstack approach with Eta, HTMX, and Lit delivers the best of both worlds.
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