Baransel Arslan - Web Development Tips & Tutorials

I used to fix every bug the second I saw it.

I used to tell myself one more feature was nothing.

Everything I’ve ever built on Solana went through the same phase.

For a long time my Claude Code sessions were a lot of copy-paste.

Nobody writes graceful shutdown until it bites them.

The first time I shipped a Solana bot to mainnet, it worked great in my tests and then landed maybe half its transactions in production.

For the first few weeks I used Claude Code, I kept correcting the same things.

I wrote a while back about the slash commands I can’t live without.

The first thing people do when something’s slow is add a cache.

I had a suspicion that I was using Claude Code wrong.

I’ve been in crypto for seven years.

I reached for WebSockets the first three times I needed to stream data from a server to the browser.

For months I typed the same prompts into Claude Code.

A rate limiter is one of those things that looks easy on paper.

I’ve read about a dozen articles on React Server Components and most of them feel the same.

For a long time I used Claude Code the obvious way.

I tried to sell access to a trading signals group last year.

I spent my first month with Claude Code getting mediocre results.

I missed a drop I’d been waiting three weeks for.

I’ve got a graveyard of unfinished side projects.

I kept seeing people on Twitter talk about running Solana validators like it’s some kind of money printer.

I kept seeing BONKbot numbers on Dune dashboards.

I was paying $200/month for a Solana analytics tool that gave me the same data everyone else had.

A month ago I made a decision that felt reckless.

I spent way too long following “alpha” accounts on Twitter.

I watched pump.fun pull in millions of dollars in fees.

I’ll be honest — when I first started using Claude Code, I was using it completely wrong.

I spent two weeks integrating Stripe into a crypto data API.

I was poking around Solana Explorer one night, tracing some transactions on Marginfi, and I noticed something weird.

I was logging into Raydium every single morning, clicking “Harvest,” swapping half the rewards on Jupiter, adding liquidity, and staking the LP tokens again.

A few months ago I swapped some SOL for a token on Jupiter.

I kept seeing the same thing on Solana.

I was watching a SOL/USDC pool on Raydium one night when I noticed the price was about 0.3% higher than what Orca was showing.

I was watching a token on Solana and kept refreshing DEXScreener like an idiot.

Every Solana transaction comes with program logs.

I’ll be honest — my first sniper bot was terrible.

I spent way too long polling getSignaturesForAddress in a loop.

I’ve tried every Pomodoro app out there.

I ignored database indexing for way too long.

Most web apps work fine with regular HTTP requests.

Authentication is one of those things that should be simple but somehow never is.

I switched to Prisma about two years ago and it immediately felt like the right choice.

Custom hooks confused me for a long time.

I spent years writing TypeScript and still had runtime errors caused by bad data.

Every Next.js project I built used to end up the same way.

I used to think some developers were just naturally good at debugging.

I’ve built a lot of APIs and I’ve also consumed a lot of terrible ones.

Nobody really tells you to read other people’s code.

Every year I see those “ultimate tech stack” posts and they always feel like someone listing every shiny tool they read about on Twitter.

Working alone is great until you realize nobody is going to tell you what to do next.