Kevin Trinh – CS Student @ University of Houston

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Building DevfolioX: Architecture & Decisions

A detailed breakdown of how DevfolioX is structured end-to-end: routing, content modeling, components, styling conventions, and the performance decisions that keep it fa…

A detailed breakdown of how DevfolioX is structured end-to-end: routing, content modeling, components, styling conventions, and the performance decisions that keep it fast while staying easy to extend.

Dec 30, 20256 min read

Guide

Notion CMS Pipeline (Without Bloat)

How to build a clean Notion-backed pipeline that publishes reliably, avoids slow pages, keeps previews accurate, and stays simple enough to…

How to build a clean Notion-backed pipeline that publishes reliably, avoids slow pages, keeps previews accurate, and stays simple enough to maintain without turning into a full pl…

Dec 18, 20254 min read

Deep Dive

Rebuilding CoogPlanner for Speed: From Monolith to Serverless

What changed when CoogPlanner moved to a serverless architecture: caching strategy, data access patterns, auth decisions, and how the UI st…

What changed when CoogPlanner moved to a serverless architecture: caching strategy, data access patterns, auth decisions, and how the UI stayed responsive even as the features gre…

Dec 15, 20257 min read