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Designing for Elegance.
A journal of essays and implementation notes at the intersection of design, code, and thought. Reading on Next.js, TypeScript, and product craft — featured work first, latest below.
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BlogMay 2, 2026
Launching the blog 🚀
I built a personal blog with Next.js 16 + tRPC v11 + Prisma 7 + Clerk. Here is why and what is next.
Tanji
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Next.jsApr 30, 2026
A deep dive into Vercel's ISR cache
Decoding x-vercel-cache states: HIT, MISS, STALE, PRERENDER.
Tanji
BlogApr 23, 2026
30 days of practicing piano
What 15 minutes a day adds up to.
Tanji
TailwindApr 21, 2026
Migrating to Tailwind v4: lessons learned
What changed with @theme inline and CSS variables.
Tanji
Next.jsApr 16, 2026
Running Clerk on the Edge runtime
Where I got stuck mixing Edge middleware with Node pages.
Tanji
TypeScriptApr 12, 2026
Migrating to ESLint flat config
Bumps along the road from .eslintrc to eslint.config.ts.
Tanji
TypeScriptApr 5, 2026
Site search with Postgres + pgvector
Tuning to find the threshold where Algolia is unnecessary.
Tanji