Development

Why I Switched from Google Places API to a Free Alternative

I was building a local business directory and needed location data. Google Places API pricing added …

Build Your Freelance Empire: Zero Software Costs, Maximum Developer Power

Build Your Freelance Empire: Zero Software Costs, Maximum Developer Power Starting your freelance …

How I Approach WordPress Core Web Vitals Before Rebuilding Anything

How to Improve WordPress Core Web Vitals (2026) A senior …

How I Built a High-Performance Browser Image Processing Pipeline with Web Workers and WebAssembly

A deep dive into worker pools, zero-copy transfers, SharedArrayBuffer, scheduling, and the engineeri…

Your color palette probably fails accessibility. Here's how to check it in 30 seconds

Here's an uncomfortable stat: most color palettes that look great fail the most basic accessibility …

After 20 Years of PHP, I Built the Framework I Always Wanted

For more than 20 years I've worked as a PHP developer, building everything from small websites to la…

How to Take a Website Screenshot in Node.js (4 Ways)

Node.js has no shortage of ways to screenshot a website. The honest list is four: Puppeteer, Playwri…

Stop Using JSON Files: Quickstart Your Next App with a Free Neon Database

If you’ve ever built a hobby project or a quick prototype, chances are you started by storing data i…

Spain's "free" cadastre API: what it actually costs to consume (SOAP JSON)

Spain's cadastre has a genuinely free, no-registration public API (the OVC). For a one-off lookup it…

Why I built MediaShed

Me and my team deal with images a lot. Compress a bunch of photos for our website. Convert PNGs some…

What goes in global state in 2026

What belongs in Redux, URL state, server cache, and local state in modern React apps As a senior dev…

I Built a Production-Ready Spring Boot 4.1.0 SaaS Boilerplate — Here Is What I Learned

Why I Built This Every Spring Boot project I started, I spent the first 2–3 weeks building the exa…