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June 5, 2025

Next.js Server Actions are public-facing API endpoints

Thursday, June 05, 2025 Teklinks

Thanks to Server Actions, developers are able to execute server-side code on user interaction, without having to create an API endpoint themselves. I’ve emphasised “themselves”, because server actions are a syntactic sugar for API endpoints, which to my surprise, is not that well-known amongst some professionals in the industry.

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June 4, 2025

Human coders are still better than LLMs

Wednesday, June 04, 2025 Teklinks

This is a short story of how humans are still so much more capable of LLMs. Note that I'm not anti-AI or alike, you know it if you know me / follow me somewhere. I use LLMs routinely, like I did today, when I want to test my ideas, for code reviews, to understand if there are better approaches than what I had in mind, to explore stuff at the limit of my expertise, and so forth (I wrote a blog post about coding with LLMs almost two years..

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Announcing Rolldown-Vite

Wednesday, June 04, 2025 Teklinks

TL;DR: Try out the Rolldown-powered Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default vite package. It is a drop-in replacement, as Rolldown will become the default bundler for Vite in the future. Switching should reduce your build time, especially for larger projects.

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June 3, 2025

The Beauty of TanStack Router

Tuesday, June 03, 2025 Teklinks

Choosing a Router is probably one of the most important architectural decisions we have to make. The router isn't just another dependency in node_modules - it's what holds your whole application together.

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Manual Work is a Bug

Tuesday, June 03, 2025 Teklinks

A.B.A: always be automating Thomas A. Limoncelli Let me tell you about two systems administrators I know. Both were overloaded, busy IT engineers. Both had many repetitive tasks to do. Both wanted to automate these tasks.

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