Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 16

Guardrails for a Runaway Agent

#aiagents #architecture #theagentplaybook

4 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 16

Test on Change, Not on a Timer

#aiagents #architecture #theagentplaybook

4 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 12

You Only Get to See It From the Outside Once

#engineeringculture #leadership #career

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 16

The Token Bill Is Part of the Architecture

#aiagents #architecture #theagentplaybook

4 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 9

Do It As Usual: Teaching One Agent Your Whole Workflow

#aiagents #theagentplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 7

You Probably Don't Need Multi-Agents

#aiagents #architecture #theagentplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 7

Code-Splitting Is a Boundary Decision, Not a Bundle Trick

#react #architecture #performance #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 7

The Command Palette Is an Architecture, Not a Widget

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 7

Theming and Dark Mode Without the Flash: A Systems Problem in CSS Clothing

#react #css #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Aug 7

Re-Renders Are React's Superpower, Not a Disease to Cure

#react #architecture #performance #reactplaybook

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 29

Analytics Is Architecture: Stop Sprinkling track() Everywhere

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 28

Feature Flags: Every Flag Is a Branch You Promised to Delete

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 28

The Event Bus: Great for Decoupling, Great for Making a Mess

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 28

State Machines in React: When Booleans Start Lying to You

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 27

Undo/Redo Without Losing Your Mind: The Command Pattern in React

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 27

Optimistic UI: Updating Before the Server Says Yes

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 27

Server State Is a Cache: Normalization, Duplicates, and Invalidation You Can Trust

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 26

localStorage Is Not State: Persistence, Hydration, and Tabs That Fight Each Other

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 26

Keeping a UI Kit Updated Across Apps: Versioning, Contracts, and Trust

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 26

Changing a Component Everyone Uses: Deprecation, Codemods, and No Big-Bang Rewrites

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 26

Headless Components: Give Away the Behavior, Keep None of the Markup

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 25

Compound Components: Designing an API, Not Just a Component

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 25

Is Container vs Presentational Dead? What Survived the Hooks Era

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 25

How Big Should a Component Be? Composition, Decomposition, and Handing Over Dependencies

#react #architecture #reactplaybook

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 25

The Direction of the Arrows: Dependencies Are Your Real Architecture

#react #architecture #fsd #reactplaybook

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 23

Barrel Files: The Import You Love and the Bundle You Hate

#react #architecture #performance #reactplaybook

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 23

The shared/ Folder Is Not a Place, It's a Promise

#react #architecture #fsd #reactplaybook

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 23

React in 3D: When <div> Becomes <mesh>

#react #3d #vr #ar

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 23

React Native: What 'Learn Once, Write Anywhere' Really Means

#react #reactnative #mobile #expo

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 22

React on the Desktop: When a Window Beats a Tab

#react #desktop #electron #tauri

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 22

Documenting Components: The Only Docs That Don't Rot

#react #documentation #storybook #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 22

Design Prototyping for React: Where the Architecture Actually Starts

#react #design #architecture #reactplaybook

5 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 21

Sending Email from a React App: A Backend Problem in Disguise

#react #email #backend #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 21

File Upload in React: The Input Is Easy, the File Is Not

#react #fileupload #storage #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 21

Time in React: The Bugs That Only Show Up at 2 AM

#react #dates #time #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 21

Payments in React: The Client Never Decides You Got Paid

#react #payments #stripe #security

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 20

Internationalization Isn't Translation: What Actually Breaks

#react #i18n #internationalization #reactplaybook

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 20

The Smeared Component: When Architecture Scatters What Should Stay Together

#architecture #react #fsd #dx

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 20

Real-Time React: When the Server Has Something to Say

#react #websockets #realtime #tanstackquery

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 20

AI in a React App: Past the Demo, Into the Product

#react #ai #tanstack #streaming

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

Testing React Without Drowning: What Each Test Actually Buys You

#react #testing #vitest #testinglibrary

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

Hosting a React App in 2026: From DevOps Project to Git Push

#react #hosting #deployment #railway

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

Databases for React Developers: What Serverless Actually Changed

#react #database #turso #sqlite

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

SSR in React: What TanStack Start Actually Changes

#react #ssr #tanstackstart #architecture

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

The Backend a React Developer Actually Needs to Understand

#react #backend #trpc #apidesign

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 19

Authentication in React: Buy It, and Where the Line Really Is

#react #authentication #security #architecture

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 18

The AI Agent Memory System I Built Was Broken — Here Is the Redesign

#ai #architecture #dx #workflow

9 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 18

Charts in React: Who Renders the Pixels

#react #datavisualization #charts #recharts

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 18

Forms in React: Where TanStack Form Earns Its Place

#react #forms #tanstackform #validation

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 18

React UI Libraries: Who Owns the Styling Decides Everything

#react #uilibraries #shadcnui #radix

6 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 18

Styling React in 2026: How I Actually Choose

#react #css #tailwindcss #styling

7 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

Immutable Data in React: The Rule I Stopped Arguing About

#react #immutability #reatom #architecture

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

Give Your AI Agent a Memory — It Will Stop Disappointing You

#ai #productivity #dx #workflow

10 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

React State Management with Reatom: When useState Stops Being Enough

#react #reatom #statemanagement #architecture

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 16

Stop Quizzing Senior Engineers — Start Talking to Them (TL;DR)

#interview #engineeringculture #leadership #career

4 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 16

Stop Quizzing Senior Engineers — Start Talking to Them

#interview #engineeringculture #leadership #career

15 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

Routing with TanStack Router: Treat the URL Like Application State

#react #tanstackrouter #routing #typescript

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

React Data Fetching with TanStack Query: The Patterns That Keep Apps Calm

#react #tanstackquery #datafetching #typescript

8 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 17

Error Handling in React: What Users Should See When Things Break

#react #errors #tanstack #typescript

11 min read

Maksym Kuzmitskyi (MaximusFT)

Jul 16

Code Structure in React: The FSD Version I Actually Use

#react #architecture #fsd #tanstack

9 min read

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