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April 17, 2025By Roland CadavosAI & automation
Agentic Tooling: Automation with Guardrails in 2025
Agents that plan, run commands, and open PRs are here. The differentiator is how you constrain scope, secrets, and rollback paths.
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September 3, 2024By Roland CadavosNext.js
Next.js App Router: Patterns After the Dust Settled (2024)
The App Router stopped being ‘new’ and became the default greenfield path. Here is what teams standardized on once the tutorials ended.
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October 9, 2023By Roland CadavosAI & developer tools
LLM Coding Assistants: From Novelty to Daily Workflow (2023)
ChatGPT and IDE plugins changed how we write boilerplate, tests, and docs. The best teams treated AI as an accelerator—not a substitute for judgment.
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November 18, 2021By Roland CadavosReact
React Server Components and the Hybrid UI Mindset (2021)
Server Components promised less client JavaScript and clearer data boundaries. Early adopters learned where the model shines—and where it still feels new.
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August 6, 2020By Roland CadavosTypeScript & engineering
TypeScript and Remote-First Engineering in 2020
When offices closed, clarity in code mattered more than ping-pong tables. Strict TypeScript and good boundaries became the glue for distributed teams.
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