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ApolloI Sniped a Solana Token in 400ms — Here's the Full Tech Stack
I Sniped a Solana Token in 400ms — Here's the Full Tech Stack When Solana's new token $XYZ...
Orinda Felix OchiengBuilding Custom Context Decorators in KickJS
In Express you reach for req.locale = ... inside a middleware and hope the downstream handler...
Orinda Felix OchiengDependency Injection in KickJS — Tokens, Scopes, and the Per-Request Factory
Dependency injection in KickJS is small on purpose. There are four surfaces, two scopes, and one...
Orinda Felix OchiengThe KickJS Lifecycle — Bootstrap, Runtime, Shutdown
Every framework has a lifecycle, but most leave you to reverse-engineer it from console logs and...
Orinda Felix OchiengThe KickJS CLI Toolbox — Generators, Typegen, and the Configurable Build
Every framework ships a CLI. Most of them are scaffold-and-forget: a one-time nest new or next...
Orinda Felix OchiengType-Safe Augmentation Patterns in KickJS — ContextMeta, AuthUser, PolicyRegistry
Decorator decorations are unsound until you augment. @Roles('owner', 'admin') looks like it is...
Orinda Felix OchiengBYO in KickJS v5 — Building Your Own Mailer (and Why That's a Good Thing)
If you went looking for @forinda/kickjs-mailer on npm and found a deprecation banner instead of a v5...
SureshI built a bulk email tool in one evening - no database, no .env, credentials never stored
Every week I had to send 100+ personalized emails. Open Excel → copy name → paste → change email →...
Marvin TangBuilding a Gacha Tower Defense in Cocos Creator: Wave System, Merge Logic, and 28 Enemy Types
I wrote recently about migrating from LayaAir to Cocos Creator. This post is the follow-up: what I...
Orinda Felix OchiengThe KickJS Request Lifecycle — Middleware, Contributors, and Typed Context
There is a tempting first read of KickJS where ctx looks like a friendlier wrapper around Express's...
Orinda Felix OchiengFrom v3 to v5 — Migrating a Production KickJS App, Slice by Slice
If you maintain a KickJS v3 app, the v5 changelog probably reads like a wall of unfamiliar primitives...
Orinda Felix OchiengAuthentication and Authorization in KickJS — Strategies, Roles, and Type-Safe Decorators
For most of last year, the cheapest way to ship a security regression in a TypeScript API was a...
Orinda Felix OchiengInside KickJS Adapters — Lifecycle, Composition, and Custom Patterns
If you have written an Express app, you already know the shape of a middleware: a function that gets...
logiQodeDon't Build Your MCP Server as an API Wrapper
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining traction as the standard way to connect language models...
Omar Hernandez ReyBuilding an MVP with Next.js in 30 Days: My Process as a Freelance Developer
Over the past 5 years, I've built 30+ MVPs for startups using Next.js. Some succeeded, some failed,...
Tony SpiroClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs 4.6: What Changed and Which Should You Use?
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 4.6 in February 2026, roughly five months after Sonnet 4.5 launched...