IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
18 articles
23 Feb 2026 · 15 min read
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Part 1 of 11 — A Technical Lead's honest assessment of Angular 21 (released Nov 2025), .NET 10 LTS, and GitHub Copilot for an Ecommerce project. Architecture decisions, ADR templates, and what nobody tells you on day one.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 7 min read
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Part 11 of 11 — The Tech Lead's honest retrospective on Angular 21 + .NET 10 for an ecommerce project. What this stack does well, where it struggles, the risk register, and practical advice for teams starting this journey.
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Part 9 of 11 — A practical testing strategy for an Angular 21 + .NET 10 ecommerce project. Unit testing with Vitest and Angular Testing Library, .NET integration tests with xUnit, and Playwright E2E for the critical purchase flow.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 3 of 11 — A practical training curriculum for .NET backend developers learning Angular 21. Mapping DI, Signals vs. RxJS, components, and common mistakes — written for someone who already understands clean code.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
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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.
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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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Post I — Complete Angular 21 performance guide for ecommerce: CDK virtual scrolling for large product grids, NgOptimizedImage LQIP and fill mode, preconnect hints from SSR, and bundle analysis with nx build.
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Post E — Production Angular 21 routing patterns for ecommerce: functional guards with returnUrl, route resolvers for data preloading, type-safe navigation with withComponentInputBinding, and preloading strategies.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
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Post G — Security patterns every Angular Tech Lead must know for ecommerce. How Angular's sanitizer works, the token refresh race condition and the shareReplay fix, Content Security Policy with SSR, and CSRF protection.
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