https://www.ianduvall.com An RSS feed of Ian Duvall's blog posts https://www.ianduvall.com/blog/stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants A reflection on the temptation to rebuild existing tools instead of leveraging battle-tested libraries. Explores why we fall into this trap, the hidden costs of reinvention, and how using existing solutions frees us to focus on problems uniquely ours to solve. Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ianduvall.com/blog/composition A commentary on using composition to build flexible components that scale with complexity. Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ianduvall.com/blog/zero-downtime-migrations A guide to making breaking changes without downtime Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ianduvall.com/blog/react-use-hook A look at the `use` hook in React 19 and how it can be used for client-side data fetching. Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ianduvall.com/blog/site-init Restarting my personal site from scratch with Next.js Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT