February 23, 2026
Adapt or Disappear: How AI Turned a 2-Year Project Into a 1-Week Sprint
The Delphi community has strong opinions about AI — and I get it. Privacy concerns, code quality worries, the instinct that real developers should not need a machine to help them write code. I have heard every argument in the book, and…
January 30, 2026
Stop the Hype! Let's Look at the Facts Before Leaving Next.js in 2026
Here's an interesting fact: When I got deeply involved in the Delphi community back in 2004, everybody was telling me "Delphi is dead." The hot new thing was .NET, and conventional wisdom said anyone still writing in Delphi was living in…
December 30, 2025
GitHub Is Not a Backup (And Why That Matters)
I came across something this morning that made me pause: a developer celebrating their move from daily ZIP files to GitHub, calling it their "backup solution." While I'm genuinely happy they've discovered version control, this statement…
October 5, 2025
React Conferences to attend this month
It's October and I'll be attending two major React-focused conferences this month: React Conf and Next.js Conf. I plan to join both online — which is great because both events offer free virtual attendance. No travel, no hotel, no…
September 27, 2025
Better-Auth taking over management of Auth.js
I’ve tried a lot of authentication frameworks for React and Next.js in the last year. I wanted something that just works, is secure, and lets me move fast without wrestling with OAuth flows or rolling my own session handling. For a long…
September 21, 2025
Vercel Web Interface Guidelines
Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js framework, has published a comprehensive set of [Web Interface Guidelines](https://vercel.com/design/guidelines). These guidelines provide best practices and recommendations for building…
September 16, 2025
FlexCel is the perfect report generator for any frontend
FlexCel is a powerful library for creating and manipulating Excel files in Delphi and .NET applications. You can export to many image formats as well as PDF files. The product allows you to create templates in Excel, which makes it easy to…
August 21, 2025
Why Web development is difficult for Delphi developers...
I have been fairly quiet over the past few months, focusing on several projects that required my full attention. Last year, I got to know React and I reported about the challenges. Coming from a Delphi background, I have learned a great…