Building on Solana: What Nobody Tells You
The account model is genuinely different. PDAs are confusing until suddenly they aren't. Here's everything I wish someone had told me before I started.
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Real-Time Collaboration is Harder Than It Looks
I naively thought WebSockets would be the hard part. Turns out, keeping two users' canvases in sync without conflicts is the actual problem — and it has a beautiful solution.
Read postThe Mental Model That Changed How I Think About Full-Stack
Most bugs don't live where you think they do. Once I started thinking about data shape transformations across layers, debugging got a lot faster.
Read postNext.js Performance: The Things That Actually Move the Needle
After profiling three production Next.js apps, I noticed the same patterns showing up. Most of the advice online optimizes for the wrong things.
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