June 7th, 2026
Separating Workers From My API Created a Deployment Problem
A production engineering story about separating background workers from the API, and the unexpected deployment challenges that arose.
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May 21st, 2026
Your App Is Fast on Wi-Fi. Your Users Are Not.
Wi-Fi hid async bugs in my Next.js app. Chrome throttling exposed race conditions, stale UI, and wrong request order before users noticed.
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May 19th, 2026
Fixing Ghost API Calls in Next.js (AbortController & SWR)
Stale API responses overwrote fresh UI during fast navigation. AbortController and SWR fixed ghost requests in Next.js App Router.
15 min read
May 17th, 2026
Why I Stopped Using Axios in Next.js App Router
App Router pushed me from Axios to native fetch: caching, AbortController, and fewer layers in production—not a package comparison rant.
14 min read
May 9th, 2026
How to Change the Vercel Server Region for Next.js Projects (And Why It Matters)
Production Next.js APIs at ~800ms+ despite lean MongoDB. Moving Vercel functions from iad1 (US) to bom1 (Mumbai) cut latency to ~100ms.
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April 26th, 2026
Fix “Sitemap Couldn't Fetch” in Next.js (Real Fix After 8 Months)
A real debugging story about fixing a Next.js sitemap when Google Search Console showed Couldn't fetch for months—and what finally worked.
10 min read
May 23rd, 2026
Why I Added llms.txt to My Website
A low-cost experiment: llms.txt and llms-full.txt on my sites. What I think about AEO, GEO, and machine-readable context—without AI SEO hype.
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