Development

My site has 38 free tools and got 24 organic visitors last quarter

I run a site with 38 free developer tools on it. JSON formatter, JWT decoder, base64, PDF merge, OCR…

Your Recipe App Is Hiding a Silent Video

Open dev tools on almost any recipe site mid-scroll and check the Elements panel. Buried near the bo…

Micro Pool: Tiny 8-Ball You Can Play in Your Browser Today

Play now: https://playinmo.com/mpool Most online pool games feel heavy — long loads, app installs, …

I Built a Free Pantry Inventory App — And I'm Building It in Public

I Built a Free Pantry Inventory App — And I'm Building It in Public What if a small restaurant didn…

Popwire's unsubscribe link writes nothing when it is opened, because a scanner opens it first

Mail security software at large companies opens every link in a message before the person it was sen…

What Is a Backend Server Actually Doing?

When you open an app, submit a form, log in, fetch your profile, or place an order, the frontend is …

React 19 & Next.js: Solving the modal flash problem in production

Have you ever loaded a SaaS app and seen an announcement banner flicker in 500ms after the page load…

We shipped a month of SEO work and our position never moved. Here is why.

A month of correct on-site work sat completely unseen. Not because the work was wrong, but because w…

btoa('café') gives you the wrong bytes, and nothing tells you

Run this in your browser console: btoa('café'); // 'Y2Fm6Q==' Now encode the same word as U…

StyleX won CSS-in-JS because AI agents can read it

We began choosing CSS tools depending on what a robot could read. In late August 2026, both Linear a…

Two scale errors in Life-Race-V2 multiplied into one visible problem

In Life-Race-V2, Robert filed four reports. They traced back to two causes that multiplied each othe…

The 7-second test: why junior developer CVs get skipped (with before/after rewrites)

Recruiters and hiring managers give a CV about seven seconds before deciding whether to keep reading…