Husnain Ali

AI coding tools have come a long way. I use them daily and they've made me more productive.

But a lot of us don't work on new repos. We work on codebases that have been around for years. Functions 3000+ lines long. Code from 2015 still running in production.

When you point AI at...

Next.js 16 renamed middleware.ts to proxy.ts

If you're planning to upgrade to Next.js 16, heads up.

middleware.ts is now proxy.ts.

The Next.js team renamed it to better describe what it actually does. It sits at the network boundary and intercepts requests before they reach your...

I use Claude in VS Code and the biggest pain was running out of context mid-chat.

Every new chat meant re-explaining everything. I had a project-documentation.md but it ate up 70% of the context alone. So I asked Claude to update that doc.

It did something better. It created a

VS Code just shipped the feature I've been waiting for. Context window viewer You can finally see how much of the context is used no more guessing based on whether the AI responses start getting worse. I've been using VS Code for years. Work provides GitHub Copilot, and...