Next.js

Aug 2021 - May 2025 · 3 projects

Jan 2024 - Present · 5 projects

Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 · 2 projects

Jul 2025 - Jul 2026 · 2 projects

Aug 2026 - Present · 1 project

A 116-line build gate that fails on broken internal links

A post-build script that walks the prerendered HTML and fails the build on any internal href the build did not emit — and why it reads output, not data.

Aug 2026 · 5 min

loading.tsx turns every notFound() into an indexable soft-404

A streaming loading.tsx flushes headers at 200, so notFound() paints 404 UI into a committed response. Finding and fixing an indexable soft-404 factory.

Aug 2026 · 6 min

One line in layout.tsx told Google 90 pages were duplicates of my homepage

A canonical set in a Next.js root layout is inherited by every route. Mine made all 90 pages declare themselves duplicates of the homepage — silently.

Aug 2026 · 3 min

Your sitemap can submit 200-status Not Found pages

My sitemap nominated a URL the build never emitted, because it composed detail URLs with slugify(name) while the routes were keyed by id.

Aug 2026 · 4 min

How I became CTO at 23 of the company that hired me as a part-time student

Hired part-time in August 2021, CTO of the same company in August 2026 — five years to the month. What actually happened in between, honestly scoped.

Aug 2026 · 3 min

Sole PM, sole PO, sole designer — and the engineer

My CTO role description lists me as sole PM, PO and UI/UX designer. Four viewpoints in one head, and the implementer wins every argument by default.

Aug 2026 · 6 min

402 MB to 126 MB: what was actually in my Next.js container

My portfolio held 402 MB resident for a static site. Most of it was 26.7 MB of icon JSON the page graph never used but loaded at boot anyway.

Jul 2026 · 4 min

Dropping next/image on purpose: libvips, host cores, and the qualities:[100] trap

My image optimizer re-encoded every image at quality 100 because of a one-value allowlist, while keeping libvips resident. I removed it entirely.

Jul 2026 · 5 min

Build with Bun, serve with Node: dodging a standalone RSS leak

I use Bun everywhere in this repo except the one place that matters most: serving. Why the runtime stage of my Dockerfile is plain node:26-slim.

Jul 2026 · 4 min

Token-free GitHub stats with ISR: no PAT, no rate-limit wall

How I render live GitHub contributions, stars and language bytes with no access token: a public REST fan-out, daily ISR, and null on every failure.

Jun 2026 · 5 min

next-intl Thai/English localization with a shared UI workspace

Three days into a Bun monorepo I shipped next-intl Thai/English routing and moved the shadcn set into a shared workspace package. What that actually costs.

May 2026 · 5 min

Localizing a storefront to Thai while replacing its design system

On 30 January 2026 I swapped RS Award's design system and localized it to Thai in one milestone. Thai is a typography constraint, not a translation step.

Jan 2026 · 5 min

Switching from Prisma/Postgres to MongoDB mid-build

Eight weeks into a Next.js catalog rebuild I replaced Prisma and Postgres with MongoDB. What forced it, what it cost, and why Postgres was not the problem.

Jan 2026 · 5 min

Server-Sent Events for realtime game rooms — why not WebSockets

Why I streamed poker room state over Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets: one-way push, reconnects for free, and the costs I accepted.

Jun 2025 · 5 min

Test-driving a poker hand evaluator

Why a poker hand evaluator is the rare piece of software worth writing strictly test-first — a finite, published, fully verifiable spec.

Jun 2025 · 5 min

Adding a blog system and JSON-LD to a catalog storefront

A week after replacing a WordPress catalog with Next.js, I rebuilt the blog, sitemap and structured data the CMS had been giving away for free.

Jun 2025 · 5 min

Role-based accounts with NextAuth, bcrypt and Zod — the whole flow

Day two of a 13-day freelance build: NextAuth credentials with bcrypt, one Zod schema validated on both sides, and where a user's role actually lives.

Feb 2025 · 4 min

Why I built my thesis on Nuxt 3 instead of Next.js

Choosing Nuxt 3 over Next.js for a solo senior thesis in 2024: what auto-imports, Nitro and Vue reactivity gave me, and why I never chose it again.

Mar 2024 · 5 min

Starting to freelance in my third year of university

Why I started taking client work on 1 January 2024 — mid-degree, already holding a part-time dev job and a thesis — and what the first year produced.

Jan 2024 · 5 min

Three storefronts in ten months on the boring stack

Three WordPress storefronts for my family's trophy factory in ten months, solo, while studying CS full-time — the four-phase playbook and what boring cost.

Jan 2023 · 4 min

My first client work was WordPress, and that was the right call

Seven months into my CS degree, I built my family's award-catalog site on WordPress instead of custom code. Why the boring choice was the right one.

Mar 2022 · 5 min