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Solana Priority Fees: Why Your Transactions Keep Failing
Your Solana transaction lands fine in testing, then fails half the time on mainnet during any real activity. It's almost always priority fees. Here's what's happening and how I set them so my transactions actually land.
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The CLAUDE.md Setup That Made Claude Code Actually Useful
For weeks Claude Code kept making the same wrong assumptions about my project. Then I wrote a proper CLAUDE.md and most of that just stopped. Here's what goes in mine and what I leave out.
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The Claude Code Hooks That Actually Changed How I Work
Slash commands are the prompts you trigger. Hooks are the things that run whether you remember to or not. These are the few I set up that quietly fixed problems I'd been having for months.
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Caching in Node.js: When In-Memory Beats Redis
Everyone reaches for Redis the second they hear the word cache. Half the time a plain object in memory is faster, simpler, and good enough. Here's how I decide, with the cases where each one wins.
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I Let Claude Code Review Its Own PRs for a Month and Here's What Happened
I made a rule: every PR I opened for a month got reviewed by Claude Code before a human saw it. Some of it was genuinely useful. Some of it was noise. Here's the honest breakdown.
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OneKey Classic 1S Review (vs Ledger) — My Honest Take After 7 Years
OneKey reached out after finding this blog and sent me a Classic 1S to test. I've been a Ledger user for years. Here's what actually surprised me.
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Streaming from Node.js to React with Server-Sent Events
WebSockets are overkill for most streaming use cases. Server-Sent Events give you the 80% solution with a tenth of the complexity. Here's how to wire it up in Node and React.
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The Claude Code Slash Commands I Can't Live Without
Slash commands are the part of Claude Code most people never set up. Here are the ones I use every day, how I wrote them, and why they beat retyping the same prompts over and over.
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I Built a Rate Limiter in Node.js and Here's What I Got Wrong
A rate limiter sounds like a 20-line problem. Then you ship it. Then it breaks in ways you didn't expect. Here's the naive version, the things I got wrong, and what I ended up with.
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React Server Components: What They Actually Change in Your Code
Forget the hype articles. Here's what actually changes in your day-to-day React code when you start using Server Components, with the mistakes I made so you don't have to.