3 Jan 2026News Media Technology15 min
Text News Isn't Dying—It's Evolving: Why AI Makes Written Journalism More Valuable, Not Less
Text news isn't dying. It's evolving. AI can't create news—it can only summarize it. Publishers who master the shift from SEO to AEO to GEO will own the next decade. The ones who don't? Already dead.
AINews MediaSEOAEOGEO
6 Nov 2025Case Study14 min
I Turned YouTube Into Our Video CMS. It Now Runs for RM0/Month.
Most news platforms spend RM500K+ yearly on enterprise video management systems. I replaced our entire video infrastructure with YouTube's free API, WebSub for real-time updates, and smart caching. The result? 33K videos, 2M+ daily views, RM0/month operational cost. Here's the complete technical breakdown.
YouTube APINext.jsCase StudyCost Optimization
5 Nov 2025Case Study18 min
From Crisis to 8.5M Monthly Active Users: The News Platform Story Nobody Tells You
When I inherited FMT's platform, traffic had collapsed 31%—from 3.89M to 2.68M average monthly users. The database was throttling at 50-100%, entire sections disappeared during traffic spikes, and the previous Next.js v2 had damaged our SEO. The turnaround now supports 8.5M monthly active users: organic share grew from 40% to 68%, Lifestyle page views rose 184%, load time fell from 4.2s to 1.3s, and the cloud bill dropped about 75%.
Next.jsPerformanceScalabilityCase Study
3 Nov 2025Career12 min
19 Years in Tech: From Visual Basic to 8.5M Monthly Active Users
From a small-town student in Ujjain scoring 64% in board exams to becoming a Top 3% StackOverflow contributor and operating platforms serving 8.5M monthly active users. This is my unfiltered 19-year journey through Visual Basic, PHP, .NET, JavaScript, and finally Next.js. The technologies changed every 3-4 years. The fundamentals? They never did.
CareerSoftware EngineeringPersonal JourneyLessons Learned
