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September 24, 2026

Immutability Is an Optimization, Not a Virtue

React's own docs call it an optimization. It gets taught as the Right Way. Teaching a rule without its reason produces people who follow the rule and never learn the judgement, and the modern web is the bill for that.

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September 24, 2026

Rebuilding this site

This domain used to host a React tutorial with a half-finished tic-tac-toe board on it. Here's what replaced it, and why.

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