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Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.

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Understanding React Server Components

How React Server Components split an app across the server/client boundary, why they never hydrate, and the composition pattern for putting server content inside a client component.

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Getting Started with Next.js 16

What actually changed in Next.js 16, from the "use cache" directive to Turbopack as the default bundler, the React Compiler on by default, proxy.ts in place of middleware, and native View Transitions.

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