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Next.js Best Practices in 2026: The Boilerplate I Built So I Stop Repeating Myself

Every serious Next.js project I start needs the same fifteen things before the actual product exists: authentication, layouts, permissions, environment validation, an API client, i18n, UI primitives, SEO metadata, tests, linting, formatting, Docker, CI, error tracking, analytics. None of that is the product. All of it has to exist before the product can ship. I kept rebuilding this foundation…

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Building an investing knowledge graph, part 4: building the resolver

Building an investing knowledge graph, part 4: building the resolver Part 3 ended with a question I left open: how does the threshold actually get set, and what happens to the registry when new…

  • Resolver determines if candidate entity mentions refer to same underlying entity
  • Cost of wrong decisions includes incorrect inferences and partial answers
  • Splink library powers resolver with DuckDB backend and FastAPI service

CDC with Sling: When Log-Based Works and When Query-Based Is Enough

Introduction Every team syncing an operational database to a warehouse eventually hits the same fork in the road. You have a mode: incremental replication that runs on a schedule, it works, and then a…

  • Incremental replication loads data on a schedule, simpler with no special privileges.
  • CDC reads transaction log for every change, including deletes, after initial load.
  • Query-based CDC accurately replicates all changes, including deletes, from transaction log.

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