IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
23 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
angular
Post B — A practical Angular 21 code review checklist for Technical Leads. The forbidden patterns, ESLint rules that automate the checklist, and how to give structured feedback without slowing teams down.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 5 of 12 — How AI transforms the Tech Lead role: AI-assisted PR review, standards enforcement, technical debt scoring, architectural governance, and the mentoring and culture-building that only great engineers provide.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
angular
Post F — A deep dive into Angular 21's @defer deferrable views. All trigger conditions, loading/placeholder/error blocks, combining with SSR, and measuring the real impact on LCP, INP, and bundle size.
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angular
Post J — Day-to-day developer experience in an Nx Angular monorepo: library watch mode, Nx affected for daily work, trunk-based development, feature flags for parallel work, and avoiding common multi-team blockers.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 23 min read
architecture
Part 7 of 7 — Taking Kids Learn to production with Docker, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry observability, performance optimization, Native AOT considerations, and an honest retrospective on what worked and what was over-engineered.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 28 min read
agents
Part 5 of 12 — Three personas, one infrastructure. How to build an AI interviewer that asks questions, a coach that gives feedback, and an evaluator that scores fairly — all with system prompts, function calling, and state machines.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
angular
Post A — How to enforce Nx module boundary rules in Angular 21 to prevent spaghetti imports, protect domain separation, and keep teams independently productive in a monorepo.
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angular
Post D — Master Angular 21 change detection: why OnPush is required on every component, how zoneless works in a real project, debugging with Angular DevTools, and handling third-party library gotchas.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
angular
Part 10 of 11 — Production CI/CD pipeline for Angular 21 + .NET 10 ecommerce. GitHub Actions workflows for build, test, API codegen check, Docker, Azure Container Apps deployment, and dependency automation.
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