Tauri vs Electron in 2026: 1 MB vs 106 MB, and how to pick
Pick Tauri for 1 MB installers, a Rust core, and mobile later. Pick Electron for the same Chromium everywhere. Our test: idle memory only 5% apart.
Blog, page 11
Writing based on projects we built, without listicles or filler.
The monorepo question for small teams
A monorepo solves one problem well, sharing types between apps without a publish step. For a small team, that's usually the whole decision.
TypeScript strict mode on a hundred-model codebase
What the strict compiler flag actually turns on, what it costs to enable late, and why we leave it on for a Prisma schema that has grown past a hundred models.
The signs your spreadsheet just became an ERP
Four moments when a shared spreadsheet stops behaving like a spreadsheet and needs what a real system provides, plus what a first system should actually be.
Why Postgres is our default database
One Postgres instance quietly replaces a document store, a search service, a queue, and a tenant-isolation layer. What it covers, and where it stops.
Why this site loads in under a second, and what that has to do with ChatGPT
How we built dawloom.com with Astro, almost no JavaScript, and a Cloudflare Worker that watches AI crawlers. The same decisions we make for client projects.
We had a purple logo. Here's why we walked away from it.
The story of the Dawloom rebrand, from a purple brand kit to warm cream and ink, and what studying sites we admire taught us about standing out in the AI era.
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