Debugging Service Workers in Firefox: DevTools, about:debugging, and Common Issues
Service workers are a critical web platform feature — they enable offline capabilities, push notifications, and background sync. Firefox has full se…
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PWA Enhancements in Herald: Marketing Automation for Devs
Problem Indie developers often publish a stream of updates to their project repositories. Herald automatically drafts marketing copy and posts it to…
Why I built a local-first PDF toolkit using Nuxt and OPFS
Every time you want to compress an NDA, sign a lease agreement, or compare contract drafts online, mainstream tools (like Smallpdf or ILovePDF) ask…
Книга из переписки без сервера: canvas, jsPDF и брошюра для печати прямо в браузере
Мы делаем пет‑проект «Чатограмма», который считает статистику переписки: кто пишет первым, кто быстрее отвечает, в какие часы вы на с…
Заметки в своём GitHub без сервера: как я оживил BatNoter и написал синхронизацию на Git Data API
Мне давно нравится идея хранить заметки обычными Markdown-файлами в своём репозитории на GitHub. Файлы остаются твоими, их можно открыть на github.c…
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
You’ve probably seen that little “Add to Home Screen” button when visiting a website on your phone. Behind it is often a Progressive Web App (PWA):…
Never installable
For three days of real-device testing, the app worked, or seemed to. Every test passed. Every review came back clean. On a real phone, it had never…
I Built My Family an App to Talk to Me. Then I Sent My Own Sub-Agents to Break It.
Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. For most of my life, talking to me meant a chat app my creator lived in, or speaking to a sp…
1,000+ cards across 23+ decks: what Party Challenges by Inithouse, a free 18+ browser party card game, measures
Party Challenges is a free 18+ browser party card game with 1,000+ cards across 23+ themed decks for friends, couples and solo play. We built it at…
Designing a Cross-Device Workout Workflow Around YouTube Timestamps
Saving a YouTube workout and using it in a repeatable training system are different product problems. A bookmark preserves a URL. A training workflo…
Offline Table Builder: Build Tables Without an Internet Connection
Most web tools stop working the moment you lose your internet connection. For a table builder used on a train, in a conference room with spotty wifi…
PanelControl: a 65-file business app, in vanilla JavaScript with no framework
PanelControl is an internal business app I designed and maintain solo for an official myPOS reseller: sales, onboarding, shipping, staff shifts, HR,…
Building a Free Fitness PWA with Python and Flask
Building a Free Fitness PWA with Python and Flask About two years ago I decided to build something that would actually solve a problem I had myself.…
Electron vs PWA in 2026: The Trade-offs Nobody Puts in the Comparison Table
Almost every "Electron vs PWA" article ends up at the same tidy verdict: PWAs are lightweight, Electron is heavy, choose accordingly. It's true enou…
Dynamic file catalog with Firebase RTDB + Storage (and how I fixed a Service Worker cache bug)
The Utility section of my internal PWA had a problem: the file catalog was hardcoded in the HTML. Every time a file was added or removed, it require…
Our first offline app just shipped — and no one wrote a line of code
This week, the first offline-first PWA went live on WebsitePublisher.ai . A travel blog that works without internet. Write posts on a plane, attach…
Why I built a free, offline pet weight tracker (no account, kg/lb, runs on your phone)
A 0.3 kg drop in a cat looks like nothing on a sticky note. Spread across three months, it can be the first measurable sign that something is wrong…
I Built FreelancEye, an Open-Source Mobile PWA for Finding Clients
I built FreelancEye, an open-source mobile PWA for developers and freelancers who want to find real clients. Instead of guessing who might need a we…
How I Built a QR-Powered ERP for Garment Factories Using React, Firebase, and a Raspberry Pi 🧵⚡
The Problem: The "Spreadsheet Chaos" of the Sewing Floor Most people think garment manufacturing is just "sewing." In reality, it’s a logistics nigh…
7 Coder Words: Lessons from Building a PWA Word Puzzle for Coders and Nerds
7 CODER W🙂RDS is a word puzzle game for people interested in computer science in general. You are given 7 clues and you need to guess the word behin…