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5 Rookie Web Dev Mistakes That Wasted Months of My Life
When I first started my web development journey, I thought being a "good developer" meant knowing 5 …
Experiments in Software Factories #1: Production app in 40 minutes
pastmonday.com is live. It has auth, a weekly calendar, tiered billing with Stripe, referral credits…
I built an Apna Ghar calculator that starts from your salary — not the loan amount
Most Apna Ghar Scheme calculators I found start with the wrong question: "How much loan do you wan…
14 shadcn Alternatives in 2026: Price, Mobile and MCP
TL;DR The best shadcn alternative depends on which part of shadcn/ui you want to replace. To keep …
Parallel AI agents need a contract first
In the previous note I wrote about why the attendance app for a fitness coach skips Messenger. This …
AEO, GEO, AIO: three acronyms, one problem, and which one actually describes what you're optimizing for
Every emerging field goes through a naming war. AI search optimization is in the middle of one, and …
How we serve 56,000 game pages without a CMS (and why WordPress buckled)
When we rebuilt GameZiko, a free browser games portal with 56,000+ playable HTML5 titles, the first …
Building Offline Workout Tracking With Reliable Data Synchronization
A user finishes a set, enters eight repetitions, and taps Save. At that moment, the gym’s connection…
Your User Paid. Your Screen Says Unpaid. That Is a Stale Data Bug, Not a Glitch
Your user just paid. The screen still says unpaid. They pay again. Now support has two charges, one …
How to Compress Images Without Losing Quality: A Practical Guide
This guide was originally published on the Tool Maxo blog. It is republished here with the original …
Web PSEditor: Edit PSDs With Layers, 100% in Your Browser
I'm a solo developer, and I just launched something I've been building for a while: Web PSEditor — a…
Building a Print-First SVG Gallery: Lessons in CSS, PDFs, and Progressive Enhancement
A printable gallery looks like a fairly ordinary content website until you try to make the same draw…