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AI Coding Tip 029 - Stop Using One Model for Everything

Different stages need different brains. TL;DR: Assign a different model to each pipeline stage since none excels at planning, coding, reviewing, and t…

React 19's useActionState Showed Me Why Disabling My Submit Button Was Never Enough

Every form I ever shipped before React 19 needed the same three pieces of state, and I wired them up by hand every single time. One for the result. On…

You hand-edit headlines to avoid orphaned words. `text-wrap: balance` does it natively.

Here is a small but persistent annoyance in frontend work: <h1> The Practical Guide to Building Resilient Web </h1> The browser broke the …

"I built a Python compiler that runs in browser using WebAssembly"

"I recently built PyPlayground — a free online Python compiler. The interesting part is it runs Python 3.12 entirely in the browser using Pyodide WebA…

Path Traversal in PHP — How `../` Escapes Your Application

Originally published on Medium One unsanitized file path is all an attacker needs to read your database credentials, your SSH keys, or your entire cod…

Bifrost AI Gateway Would Have Saved My App

I was showing ChefExtract to some friends when it started returning error 404 for specific operations linked to AI. After some embarrassment, I went h…

React Performance Optimization Techniques That Actually Work

Performance optimization in React is often surrounded by myths. Developers routinely wrap every single component in React.memo , wrap every function i…

Building a Browser-Based Voxel Editor with React Three Fiber

I have been building VoxelDraft , a voxel editor that runs entirely in the browser without an account or installation. The editor supports block paint…

Building a Modern CRM Dashboard with React, Tailwind CSS, and Recharts

Building a modern Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform requires more than just displaying raw database records. Users expect interactive an…

[Dev Log][Node.js] Feedly Classic is gone, so I built my own FeedFlow (Part 1)

Introduction: Since Feedly's redesign, I haven't been able to get used to the interface. I especially miss the high-density, single-column, no-nonsens…

I built an open-source, self-hostable Jira alternative — here's the stack

For the last while I've been building Spirex — a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Jira for agile engineering teams. It's now at a point…

What OpenAI's New Task-Crossover Research Can Teach Freelancers About Owning the Handoff in 2026

The most useful line in today's AI news is not that AI can do more work. It is that AI is changing who does the work. In a new OpenAI Economic Researc…

7 Git Mistakes Every Beginner Developer Should Avoid

By Mian Usman Khalid Git is one of the first tools developers learn—but it's also one of the easiest to misuse. Making mistakes is normal, but some ha…

I Built (Almost) My Whole Play Store Listing Without Opening Figma — Here's the Free Tool That Did It

If you've ever shipped an app to Google Play, you know the feature graphic dance: open Figma, make a 1024×500 canvas, flatten it, export, upload, get …

Day 1 of Demolishing my Stack of Unfinished Projects

Originally published on 2022-07-04. Published on July 3rd, 2022 We have a ll been there.. We all have that long list of unfinished side projects that …

React useDropZone Hook: Build a File Drop Zone (2026)

React useDropZone Hook: Build a File Drop Zone (2026) Drag a file over a drop zone that has any child element inside it — an icon, a label, a preview …

A 200 Response Does Not Prove an AI Crawler Can Read Your Site

A crawlability check often begins with a comforting result: request the homepage, receive HTTP 200, and declare the site open. That conclusion is too …

My Chrome extension just got a update

Hi everyone,i'm the developer behind TabScroll. I built it because I constantly had 30+ tabs open and couldn't find a fast way to switch between them …

My Chrome extension just got a update Hi everyone, i'm the developer behind TabScroll. Join I built it because I constantly had 30+ tabs open and couldn't find a fast way to switch between them without reaching for the mouse. Since the first version, l've

Dev Log: 2026-07-23 — a portfolio-wide SEO pass

TL;DR Ran the same SEO + analytics checklist across five public repos and a couple of private ones in one day. Different stacks (Laravel, Next.js, Ast…

Admin-editable SEO & analytics without touching .env

TL;DR Shipped a SEO + analytics baseline in Kickoff : meta/OG, canonical, JSON-LD org schema, dynamic robots.txt , sitemap, and admin-editable GA4/GTM…

The AI Summary Said "It's Not a Scam." The Springboard Was Your Site's Search Box

Last August, a man planning a cruise googled Royal Caribbean's customer service number. Google's AI Overview served him a phone number at the top of t…

*Three.js: A Deep Dive into Its Possibilities for Game Development and a 3D Resume Concept** threejs-gamedev-webgl-resume

* Waluthekrypt ●4 ●18 ●28 calendar_today Jul 18, 2025 • schedule 8 min read more_vert Three.js is a transformative JavaScript library built on WebGL, …

5 Microservices Pitfalls to Avoid Early

5 Microservices Pitfalls to Avoid Early I've seen teams jump into microservices with high hopes, only to hit the same walls months later. Here are the…

How to Return 410 Gone on Cloudflare Pages (The \_redirects Gotcha

Background I registered a domain for a new project. Shortly after launch, Google Search Console started flooding with mysterious 404 errors — URLs lik…

The Next Internet User Is Not Human

Most AI demos still happen in isolation. One user writes one prompt. One model returns one answer. Everyone judges the output as if that is the final …

Passkeys Explained Simply

You’ve probably seen that little prompt that says “Sign in with Face ID” or “Use a passkey” instead of the traditional password field. That’s a passke…

The Real Cost of AI Coding in July 2026: What Nobody Tells You About Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor Bills

Everyone's comparing AI coding tool prices on paper. Claude Code Max at $200/mo. Cursor Ultra at $200/mo. Codex with ChatGPT Pro at $200/mo. But after…

When to refactor vs rewrite

A decision tree for grown engineers Every engineering team eventually faces the same dramatic sentence. We should just rewrite this. It is usually sai…

Four lessons from building AI, education, and healthcare products with Next.js

Over the last few years, I have built products in very different domains: generative AI, job search, education, and clinic operations. Although the in…