STEVE.WEB Labs

Technical Discoveries & Blog

Unveiling undocumented framework issues, custom backend queues, and edge-worker speed optimizations we engineer while building high-performance web products.

Infrastructure 2026-08-16

Building a Single-Process Mutex Command Runner for CLI Apps in Node/Bun

A deep-dive technical look at preventing race conditions, overlapping file operations, and clobbering in concurrent background-agent automations.

Design 2026-08-17

Engineering Zero-Friction Booking UX with Custom Timber-Framed Schedulers

How to craft a highly conversion-optimized Cal.com embed using solid outline aesthetics and responsive viewport scaling.

Performance 2026-08-17

Bypassing Modern Anti-Bot Firewalls with Headless Playwright Crawlers

An elite technical guide on custom user agents, request interception, and IP pool rotations to build resilient high-volume scrapers.

Infrastructure 2026-08-17

Mastering Database Sharding and Performance in Multi-Tenant PostgreSQL

An advanced engineering deep-dive on how to leverage Row Level Security (RLS), custom indices, and connection pooling to scale Supabase.

Security 2026-08-17

Preventing State Corruption with Atomic Mutex Locks in Node.js

How to build safe filesystem-based lock primitives to run concurrent background agents without race conditions.

Next.js 2026-08-16

Resolving Undocumented Next.js 16 Turbopack Cache Invalidation Bugs

A deep dive into how Turbopack caches local file symlinks in multi-project workspaces, and the custom dev script to force state invalidation without losing performance.

Infrastructure 2026-08-15

Building Self-Healing Payment Webhook Queues on Cloudflare Edge Workers

How to engineer fail-safe Edge webhooks that handle high-volume transactions, log database profiles, and employ recursive backoff retry routines.

SEO & Growth 2026-08-16

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Getting Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity in 2026

A complete developer's guide to the emerging discipline of GEO—how modern LLM-search models crawl and cite websites, and what to optimize.