MCP standardizes how AI apps connect to tools, resources, prompts, and external systems. It is useful infrastructure for reducing integration glue, but it does not replace permissions, confirmations, logging, threat modeling, or tool-safety design.

A personal, practical guide to robots.txt and data-use boundaries, choosing between requests, aiohttp, Scrapy, and Playwright, and handling anti-bot measures and HTML parsing.

Shaders, GPU machine code, graphics APIs, and cache invalidation: why shader compilation takes so long.

Auto-scroll in an AI chat is not just scrollTop. It needs intent signals, a follow/free state machine, handling for programmatic scroll events, virtualization, and mobile edge cases.

useEffect is useful for side effects outside rendering, but too many effects turn a component into a dependency maze. This post uses a concrete dashboard example to show when to extract custom hooks or move data fetching elsewhere.

Using OpenAI’s move from Next.js to Remix as the case study, this post compares the two React frameworks around data loading, server rendering, hydration costs, and when each one is a better fit.