We Rewrote Our Angular 18 App in React 20 and Increased Developer Velocity by 40% Last quarter, our engineering team made the bold call to rewrite our 3-year-old Angular 18 production application in React 20. After 6 months of development, we cut over to the new stack with zero downtime, and the results have exceeded our expectations: we’ve measured a 40% increase in developer velocity, alongsid
White labeling is more common than you might think. When developing software, you often need to deploy the same application for multiple clients, each requiring their own customization: unique color palettes, logos, or specific variants for a link. Without a proper strategy, you might be tempted to simply clone the existing repository and implement client-specific changes on demand. However, this
OpenWeatherMap API for Browser Extensions: A Practical Guide If you're building a browser extension that shows weather data, OpenWeatherMap is the go-to choice. Their free tier is genuinely useful, the API is well-documented, and it works well for extensions that call the API on-demand (rather than from a server). Here's what I learned building Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox. The OpenWeat
r/startpages Is the Most Underrated Firefox Community You're Not Using If you care about browser customization, there's a subreddit you probably haven't found yet: r/startpages. With 35,000+ members, it's a community of people who genuinely care about what appears when they open a new browser tab. They share custom HTML/CSS homepages, new tab extensions, and browser startpage setups. The r/start
The New Tab Page Is Prime Real Estate. Are You Wasting It? You open a new browser tab dozens of times a day. Most people see either a blank white page, or a corporate-designed "inspiration" page they never asked for. That's a waste. Let's be conservative: 20 new tabs per day × 300 working days per year = 6,000 glimpses at your new tab page per year. Each glimpse lasts maybe 2-3 seconds before yo
Why Your Browser Extension Doesn't Need an Account (And Why That Matters) When I built Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox, I made a deliberate choice early on: no user accounts, ever. This might seem like a limitation. In practice, it turned out to be the extension's best feature. Look at most popular new tab extensions and you'll find the same pattern: Install the extension Create an account
5 Lessons I Learned Building a Firefox New Tab Extension from Scratch I spent the better part of a month building Weather & Clock Dashboard — a Firefox new tab extension that shows live weather, world clocks, and a search bar. No frameworks, no bundlers, just pure HTML/CSS/JS. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I started. manifest_version: 3 Transition Is Mostly Smooth, But Watch for
Building a Firefox New Tab Extension: From Idea to AMO Publishing Every time you open a new tab in Firefox, there's a missed opportunity. The default page is... fine. But what if it showed you the weather, your world clocks, and a search bar — all without any data leaving your device? That's what I built with Weather & Clock Dashboard. Here's how the whole thing came together, including the surp