Some people treat “being yourself” like it’s a casual hobby — something you do on weekends after you’ve finished pretending to enjoy kale. Others treat it like a forbidden art, whispering, “One day… when the time is right… I’ll wear the socks with tiny avocados on them.” But being true to yourself is less about dramatic revelations … Read more
Welcome to CS 101, the class where you learn the basics of computing while simultaneously wondering how everyone else already seems to know what they’re doing. Somehow, half the room is writing code like they’re auditioning for a hacker movie, and you’re just trying to remember your password to the course portal. It’s fine. Truly. … Read more
If modern JavaScript frameworks are a big chaotic group project, SvelteKit is the nice friend who shows up early, brings snacks, sets up the whiteboard, and quietly finishes half the tasks while everyone else is still arguing about state management. Let’s talk about what SvelteKit actually is, what it’s good at, where it struggles, how … Read more
Meet Henri: The Law Clerk Who Rage-Quit His Day Job Henri Émile Benoît Matisse did not start life as the crowned prince of color. He started as… a law clerk. In northern France. In the 1880s. Which is about as exciting as it sounds. He dutifully studied law in Paris, went back home, and spent his … Read more
November strolled in like it had a clipboard, a half-finished latte, and a firm intention to grade everything I did on a curve. Every platform shifted in its own dramatic way, and the numbers — those tiny digital breadcrumbs of joy, confusion, and occasionally panic — told a story rich with contrast. So let’s unpack it all, with the … Read more
Let me begin with a confession: I never expected to wake up one morning, check FindMy, and discover that my AirPods had apparently gone rogue — ditching their perfectly good charging case, ghosting me, and then broadcasting a location inside my own house like a pair of tiny digital pranksters. Naturally, this raised several questions. Questions like: … Read more
There are two types of people in the world: If you’ve ever hesitated mid-sentence, frozen like a Windows 95 dialog box, whispering “lay… lie… laid… lain… what even is English,” congratulations — you are in the majority. These words are confusing on purpose. I suspect the grammar gremlins got a group discount. So let’s untangle a few … Read more
If React is the cool front-end library that shows up to your app in a hoodie and headphones, Next.js is the older sibling who read the docs, set up the router, wired the backend, and still remembered to configure caching. Let’s talk about what Next.js actually is, why it refuses to die, what it’s good … Read more
If Vue is the friendly neighbor who waters your plants, Nuxt is the neighbor who waters your plants, refactors your sprinklers, and quietly sets up a tiny edge-rendered microservice to optimize your lawn. Let’s unpack what Nuxt actually is, why it still matters in 2025, and whether you should invite it into your stack (and … Read more
If you process images for the web long enough, you eventually meet two very opinionated characters: Both can resize, crop, and transmogrify pixels into glorious web-optimized goodness. But they live very different lives, run in different tech stacks, and will absolutely judge you for how you call them. Let’s walk through what each one is, … Read more