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The Everyday Backend Engineer: Step 9 — The Strategy Pattern

Welcome back to The Everyday Backend Engineer: Practical Design Patterns. So far, we have cleaned up…

🚀 Day 7 of Learning React: How Do Components Share Data? Understanding Lifting State Up

📌 Missed Day 6? I explored how React renders components, why immutable updates matter, how HMR works…

Building and Running the Content Platform

Welcome to the new blog If you are new here, I am shrey, a software developer and creator of multip…

My blur extension kept hiding the wrong students, so I rewrote the name matcher

I built a Chrome extension that blurs student names before a teacher shares their screen. Gradebooks…

I'm losing too much time reading technical docs — building a Chrome extension for it, anyone else?

While coding, I keep finding myself having to read entire pages of technical documentation just to f…

Your -2026- Handbook- for Secure -Bybit -Account Use

Using your own identity to open and verify a cryptocurrency exchange account is the most reliable wa…

The Biggest Shift in Consumer Tech Isn't AI: It's What Comes After

For years, consumer technology has been measured by bigger displays, faster processors and longer ba…

AI Background Removal for Product Photos: The Ultimate Guide 🚀

Ever wondered why some e-commerce stores look like a high-end luxury brand while others look like a …

The Everyday Backend Engineer: Step 8 — The Repository Pattern

Welcome back to The Everyday Backend Engineer: Practical Design Patterns. In our last post, we shiel…

Why Vercel is still my default for shipping frontend projects

Last week, I was working on a client project with a fast approaching deadline. The work had already …

What makes a div read as a folder?

The folder gallery on my homepage is about 15 KB of vanilla JavaScript and one SVG path. Almost none…

The Cost of Quick Fixes: A Lesson in Maintainable Code

Today, I learned the hard way that quick fixes can lead to a maze of confusion down the line. I was …