Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud An API gateway sits between clients and your backend services. It handles cross-cutting concerns so your services do not have to: authentication, rate limiting, request routing, load balancing, caching, and observability. WebMobileIoTGatewayRate LimitAuthLoad BalanceTransformCacheService AService BService CDB / Cache API
A deep, opinionated, practical guide for the engineer who has crossed the mid-level threshold — or is about to. The mental models, technical habits, ownership patterns, communication skills, and career mechanics that separate "solid senior" from "engineer the whole team builds around." Grounded in 2026 reality — AI-augmented coding, distributed async teams, post-ZIRP efficiency pressure, and a mar
One thread. Multiple AIs. Deliberation, not polling. Most people use AI like this: 🤦 Ask one model → get one answer Ask multiple models → compare results That’s not thinking. That’s polling. Not side by side. Not isolated. But in sequence — where each one reads what the previous one said before responding. Manual Council is the simplest form of that idea. No backend. No orchestration. No
I recently had a requirement where, if a user opens the app in multiple browser tabs, only one tab can be active at a time, and the rest are locked. Here are the core requirements as I see them: Uniquely identify each tabs Store the active tab somewhere If a user opens a new tab, lock it if there is already an active tab If the active tab is closed, detect that and inform the other tabs Sounds sim
I spent long hours debugging why Google couldn't index my React app. Lighthouse showed green scores. The app felt fast. But Search Console kept flagging LCP failures and CLS shifts I couldn't reproduce locally. The fix? Four lines of metadata and one misunderstood render strategy. If you've ever shipped a "fast" SPA and watched it flatline in search rankings, this Core Web Vitals SEO guide is for
I wanted to add live chat to my WordPress sites without loading a 500KB third-party script. So I built my own. GhostChat is an open source embeddable Widget: Vanilla JS, no framework, ~10KB Backend: Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for persistent WebSocket connections Payments: Stripe for the hosted tier Self-hostable: Bring your own Cloudflare account Durable Objects give you stateful serve
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Updated May 2026: Now covers virtual desktop (Spaces) restoration and iCloud sync across multiple Macs, both shipped in ShiftPlus 1.3. TL;DR A complete macOS workspace includes apps, window layouts, browser profiles, virtual desktops, and terminal state. Native macOS saves almost none of it. Most third-party tools cover one slice: Stay and Spencer handle window layouts, Shift handles browser profi