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Alex Aslam

May 3

Database-Level Caching with Materialized Views and Summary Tables: The Art of Precomputed Truth

#webdev #programming #productivity #rails

5 min read

Alex Aslam

May 3

Designing for Soft Deletes: Patterns, Performance, and Queries

#webdev #programming #productivity #database

7 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 21

Deadlock hunting: PostgreSQL advisory locks in distributed systems

#webdev #programming #productivity #postgres

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 11

Biometric Authentication in Turbo Native: The Art of the Invisible Handshake

#webdev #programming #javascript #rails

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 7

Mobile Performance Monitoring with Sentry and Turbo: The Art of Seeing the Invisible

#webdev #programming #javascript #rails

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4 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 7

Push Notification Delivery Guarantees with Rails: A Spiral Through the Gray Hours

#webdev #programming #rails #productivity

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 7

The Art of Background Sync in Turbo Native Apps: A Journey Through Offline-First Masterpieces

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 6

The Cartographer’s Confession: How PostGIS Turned Me from a SQL Hack into a Spatial Artist

#webdev #programming #productivity #beginners

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Apr 6

JavaScript Memory Leaks: How to Find, Fix, and Prevent Them

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 30

The Event Loop, Microtasks, and Macrotasks: A Visual Explanation

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 30

JavaScript Engine Under the Hood: How V8 Compiles Your Code

#webdev #javascript #programming #productivity

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6 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 28

Geofencing in Turbo Native with Core Location

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

2

7 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 28

React Native + Rails synchronization with WatermelonDB

#webdev #programming #beginners #productivity

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 26

Turbo Native + offline-first strategies with Workbox

#webdev #programming #ruby #mobile

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 25

The Art of the Primary Key: Surrogate (Auto-increment) vs. Natural Keys

#webdev #programming #beginners #productivity

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 25

Beyond 3rd Normal Form: When to Stop Normalizing for Performance

#webdev #programming #beginners #productivity

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Mar 25

Normalization vs. Denormalization: A Strategic Guide, Not a Dogma

#webdev #programming #beginners #productivity

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Feb 11

The Shape of Light: What’s New in Rails 8.1

#webdev #programming #ruby #rails

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Jan 2

The Architect's Journey: Navigating Next.js Security as a Living System

#webdev #programming #nextjs #javascript

1

7 min read

Alex Aslam

Dec 29 '25

Ruby on Rails in 2026: A Developer's Journey Through Time, Code, and Craft

#webdev #programming #javascript #ruby

3

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 26 '25

The Symphony of Silence: Crafting a Redis Pub/Sub Masterpiece

#webdev #programming #productivity #javascript

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 26 '25

Forging Steel: The Art of Crafting Resilient HTTP Clients

#webdev #programming #productivity #javascript

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 10 '25

The Art of the Memory Leak: A Journey Through Closure Captures

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 9 '25

The Art of Absence: A Journey Through `null` and `undefined` in Default Parameters

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 7 '25

The Symphony of Speed: A Journey into Node.js JIT Compilation

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 7 '25

The Art of Memory: A Journey with WeakMap and WeakSet

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 3 '25

The Art of the Do-Over: Designing Idempotent Jobs as a Journey to Peace of Mind

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 3 '25

The Art of Luminous Code: A Journey with Dynamic `import()` in Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 3 '25

The Art of the Meta: A Journey into JavaScript Proxies

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 2 '25

The Great Unification: A Journey from CommonJS to ES Modules in Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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4 min read

Alex Aslam

Nov 2 '25

The Siren's Call of Async/Await: A Journey Beyond `try/catch`

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

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5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 31 '25

Architectural Sanctums: Crafting Mini-Apps with Rails Engines

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 31 '25

Sculpting Monoliths: The Art of Packaging Rails with Components, Gems, and Engines

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

1

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 28 '25

The Ghost in the Machine: A Journey into the Floating Promise Pitfall

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 28 '25

The Duet of Real-Time: A Journey Through WebSockets and SSE

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

1

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 27 '25

The Siren's Call: My Journey Through the Myth of "Newer is Faster"

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 27 '25

The Architect's Journey: From the Grand Cathedral to a Fleet of Schooners

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 27 '25

The Ghost in the Machine: Taming Cache Invalidation in Rails

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 27 '25

The Silent Symphony: Scaling Read-Heavy Rails Apps with Read Replicas

#webdev #programming #productivity #ruby

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 24 '25

The Cartographer's Compass: Navigating the PostgreSQL Query Planner

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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6 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 24 '25

Mine Artisan's Workshop: Evolving Service Objects into Policies, Forms, and Queries

#webdev #programming #ruby #productivity

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5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 24 '25

The Architect's Blueprint: A Journey into Node.js's Module Soul

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 24 '25

The Artisan's Return: AdonisJS and the Quest for a Cohesive Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 23 '25

The Artisan's Forge: Extending Node.js with the Power of Native Addons

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 23 '25

The Artisan's Pursuit: Conquering the Silent Performance Killer in GraphQL and REST

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 23 '25

The Conductor's Baton: Orchestrating Real-Time UIs with Turbo Streams

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 22 '25

The Stained-Glass Artisan: Composing UIs with Turbo Frames

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

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6 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 22 '25

The Cartographer's Guide to Rails: Mapping Domains with Bounded Contexts

#webdev #programming #beginners #ruby

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 22 '25

The Artisan's Trail: Maintaining a Legacy Node.js Monolith with the Boy Scout Rule

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 22 '25

The Artisan's Journey: Weaving the Unbreakable Tapestry of Database Integration Tests

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 21 '25

The Circuit Breaker: A Symphony of Resilience in a World of Chaos

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 21 '25

Advanced ActiveRecord: The Query Interface as a Symphony of Abstraction

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 21 '25

The `concerns/` Folder: A Loom of Architecture or a Digital Junk Drawer?

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

5

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 21 '25

The Proxy Pattern: A Masterpiece of Control and Illusion in Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 17 '25

The Symphony of One: Conducting Node.js Monorepos with Lerna, Nx, and Turborepo

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

3

6 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 17 '25

The Sculptor's Studio: Carving Modularity from the Rails Monolith

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

2

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 17 '25

The "Rails Way" vs. "The Right Way": A Painter's Journey Beyond the Canvas

#webdev #programming #ruby #beginners

2

4 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 17 '25

From Bloated Container to Sculpted Artifact: The Art of the Node.js Dockerfile

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 16 '25

The Art of Defense: A Senior Developer's Journey Through the OWASP Top 10 for Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

5 min read

Alex Aslam

Oct 16 '25

From Chaos to Clarity: The Artistic Evolution of Async JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1

4 min read

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