June 14th, 2026
Why I Standardize Every Node.js Project on UTC Time
A production engineering story about standardizing Node.js applications on UTC to prevent timezone bugs, offset errors, and cron failures.
10 min read
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10 blogs — engineering notes, debugging stories, and production lessons.
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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.
12 min read
May 31st, 2026
Why I Added Graceful Shutdown to Every Node.js Project
A production engineering story about handling Node.js deployments safely using graceful shutdown, SIGTERM, and PM2 reload mechanisms.
11 min read
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.
17 min read
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.
13 min read
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.
16 min read
May 2nd, 2026
I Thought My SEO Was Dead — Then I Saw the Google Annotation
What I learned from a sudden 99% impression drop in Google Search Console, and why panic was the wrong first reaction.
12 min read
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