Building a lightweight YouTube embed component April 24, 2026

Standard YouTube embeds are notoriously heavy. A single iframe can download over 1MB of JavaScript and block the main thread, significantly hurting the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Furthermore, if...

Building an AI-Powered Digital Object Repository January 7, 2026

Like many developers, I hoard digital content—articles, papers, code snippets, and videos. Over time, organization became a significant friction point. My solution was to build a Digital Object...