Nobody Designs for 2G. Here's What Building in Kenya Taught Me About "Fast" Webs

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<p>When we started building a Point of Sale (POS) system for restaurants, we assumed one thing:</p> <p>Internet will always be available.</p> <p>That assumption didn’t last

<p>As a frontend engineer, I've often found myself wrestling with the complexities of global access. When I worked on a digital products platform targeting creators in emerging

<p>Most apps assume you're always online. But 3.4 billion people have unreliable or no internet access.</p> <p>I'm a full stack developer based in the Dominican Republic. One of

<p>A few weeks ago I was optimizing the Lighthouse performance score of a Laravel + Livewire + Tailwind + Vite landing page. The starting score was 66, and the target was anything