Why this list is different The "best" email API depends entirely on what you're building. A side project optimizing for the free tier needs different things than a Series B SaaS sending two million transactional emails a month. This post grades eight providers against the criteria that actually move the needle in production, and tells you which one to pick for which use case. Most roundups in th
If you want to Automate GitHub PRs, the real goal is not just adding another bot comment to a pull request. The goal is to give reviewers the context they usually have to gather manually: who owns the service, whether it is deployed, whether basic repository standards are in place, and whether the change looks safe to merge. A useful AI pull request workflow can do exactly that. When a PR opens, i
Memory leaks in JavaScript don't announce themselves with an error. They show up as a heap that grows by 20MB per minute — invisible in a five-minute Lighthouse run, fatal in a six-hour production session. Why React apps leak: A useEffect that opens a WebSocket and never closes it on unmount. A setInterval without clearInterval in the cleanup return. A global Map that grows without bound. In each
Random 30–50ms freezes with no obvious long tasks in the Performance panel often have one root cause: the garbage collector. V8 pauses JavaScript execution to reclaim memory, and if your allocation rate is high enough, those pauses happen frequently — creating jank that shows up as a sawtooth pattern in the memory timeline rather than a spike in the flame chart. What this covers: How V8's generati
Well, I have been on GitHub since 2019, even before the lockdown. Back then, I did not properly use GitHub. I used to just make projects, upload the code, and share it with friends. But I never really understood the point of GitHub. I think I missed my tutorials on GitHub. But now, I’ll share some key ways to actually make the best out of it. Your GitHub profile is not just a bio page. It is your
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