Writing

Deep dives on how we built Bytes, what we learned from AI curation at scale, and where the web is going.

Inside the RSS Pipeline

A look at the cron job that fans out across 16 publisher feeds every 10 minutes, normalises the chaos of RSS, and serves your feed in milliseconds.

How we built a cohesive, performant glassmorphism UI that works across devices without killing frame rates.

Going from a 62 Lighthouse performance score to 98. The specific optimizations that mattered.

The story of how Bytes went from a weekend prototype to a production app, and what we learned along the way.