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How to Install MikroTik CHR on a VPS: RouterOS Setup, Security, and WireGuard Configuration

Installing MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) on a VPS differs from an ordinary operating system rei…

How finddax.com turns four spellings of one search into a single cache hit (Node + MongoDB)

If you cache search results, your cache key is probably the search query. That works right up until …

Is Microsoft Edge Better Than Chrome Now

Is Microsoft Edge Better Than Chrome Now If you have ever asked yourself is microsoft edge better …

Debugging auth sessions by editing cookies in Chrome

A user reports they are stuck in a login loop, but only sometimes, and only since Tuesday. You canno…

How to stop losing long form entries while testing

You know the moment. You have spent twenty minutes filling in a long test case, a bug report with ex…

CSS Container Queries

CSS Container Queries: Adapting Styles to Their Home, Not Just the Whole House Hey there, fellow w…

Migrating a Microsoft Access Database to a Web App: What Moving an Agency’s CRM Taught Me

The import isn't the hard part. Keeping your records connected is. I rebuilt a CRM for an agency th…

Why We Built a 100% In-Browser PDF and Image Studio with Zero Server Uploads

When dealing with online PDF compressors, image converters, and file splitters, most web tools rely …

The 83 MB JavaScript bundle was not a dependency problem

I ran ls -lh on a production build last week and got this: -rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 3.8K inde…

Typing Hindi like a Remington typewriter, in a browser textarea

Many Indian government jobs need a computer typing test: the Staff Selection Commission's data entry…

How to audit a website's SEO and JSON-LD with a single API call

Checking a page's SEO usually means opening five different tools: one for the title and meta descrip…

From the DevTools Network Tab to an API Test Suite

If you build for the web, you’ve probably done this a hundred times. Something’s acting weird, so yo…