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September 12, 202610 min read

Designing Frontend Interfaces for Unreliable Networks and Low-End Devices

Most performance advice assumes fast wifi and a recent phone. Here's what actually changes when your users are on 3G, on a five-year-old Android device, or sending money they can't afford to lose to a failed request.

PerformanceReactUX EngineeringFintech

September 12, 20269 min read

Server Components Aren't Just SSR Again: Rethinking State in the Next.js App Router

Most of the confusion around React Server Components comes from treating them as a faster version of the old SSR model. They aren't. Here's the mental model that actually makes the App Router click, with the patterns and gotchas that follow from it.

Next.jsReactServer ComponentsArchitecture