Stef's Dev Notes
Stefania Barabas, Alexandru DragoiThis is where I think out loud about frontend engineering and engineering in general. The code I'm writing, the career lessons I'm learning, and all the invisible work that actually matters, shared one small note at a time.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Welcome to Stef’s Dev Notes!
I’m Stefania, a senior engineer and designer. I take ideas from a first prototype to products people actually use. I started Stef’s Dev Notes as a journal, a place to keep track of what I was learning.
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Does your product need an AI chat?
In short: Most features don't need a chat. If a task has one correct outcome, like saving a setting or a number, give it a form. If it needs a best guess, like a summary or a draft, that's where AI helps. When a chat does earn its place, ke...
The Stack Decision I Might Have to Revisit
In short: When the urge hits to swap in something new, I don't. Vercel is in all three of my projects, Supabase in two, and the framework is the part that changes: React + Vite or Next.js. What decides that last one is coupling.
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