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Tirth Bodawala
Setting Up and Testing an HTTP/1.1 Server in Node.js
Build, inspect and test an HTTP/1.1 server in Node.js with only core modules, then fix the shutdown that never exits. Measured on Node v24.21.0.
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Tirth Bodawala
How to use anime.js v4 without breaking motion
How to use anime.js v4: named imports, timelines, stagger, and the reduced-motion guard the library leaves to you, with code you can run today.
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Tirth Bodawala
Accessible website examples you can verify in a minute
Four public URLs, four narrow mechanisms, each dated, and the exact View Source or DevTools step that lets you re-run three of them yourself.
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Tirth Bodawala
Web accessibility testing tools: 2 or 30 on one page
What web accessibility testing tools report depends on the selection. One unchanged page returned 2 violation nodes under one and 30 under another.
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Ajay Patel
Laravel Livewire vs Blade: What Crosses the Wire
Laravel Livewire vs Blade is decided one feature at a time. The v4 request cycle sets the cost, and plain Blade still wins the display-only features.
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Ajay Patel
How to choose a CRM: run cost, fit and exit
How to choose a CRM using three tests you can run in a trial week: the three-year run cost, a real deal recorded as shipped, and a clean export.
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Tirth Bodawala
Edge vs origin: count the sequential round trips
Edge vs origin is settled by one countable property: the sequential round trips a request makes to its data. Here is the arithmetic and the counting rule.
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Ajay Patel
The Agentic SDLC: What Changes in Orchestrated Delivery
Agentic SDLC coordinates AI-assisted stages with defined inputs, outputs and verification across planning, implementation, review and testing.
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Ajay Patel
Types of Custom Software Development: Pick Your Route
Types of custom software development, reframed as a business decision: pick a route (buy, configure, extend, build) and budget it with an honest cost model.
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Ajay Patel
Software Development RFP Template: A Completed Example
A completed, annotated software development RFP template for US buyers, plus a live weighted scorecard that ranks vendor bids so value beats lowest price.
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Ajay Patel
Custom Enterprise Software Development: What CTOs Need to Know in 2026
A CTO decision guide to custom enterprise software development in 2026: a build vs buy vs modernize TCO model and an honest when-not-to-build check.
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Tirth Bodawala
Rendering a React app on Cloudflare: SSR, SSG, and edge rendering on Workers
A decision guide for rendering React on Cloudflare Workers: when to prerender to static HTML (SSG), when to run per-request SSR in a Worker, when edge rendering earns its cost, and when to skip SSR entirely. With real Astro adapter and wrangler config.
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