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React Email Verification Needs an Expiry Model

Email verification is often implemented as a success screen with one sentence: “Check your inbox.” That works until the user refreshes the page, opens an old link, clicks resend twice, or checks a disposable email address that receives messages a little slower than expected.The hard part is not rendering the message. It is representing time and uncertainty in a way the user can understand. A React component needs to know whether a verification request is being created, waiting for a message, exp

Zero img tags on our landing page, and four of the phones on it are app screens

Munchable is a gut health scanner: you scan a barcode, it weighs the ingredients against the conditions you manage and gives you one verdict with the reasons under it. The landing page has to show that, because "it gives you a verdict" is a sentence anybody could type and nobody believes.The obvious way to show it is screenshots. We have none. Fetch munchable.app and count the image tags:$ curl -s https://munchable.app | grep -o "<img" | wc -l0$ curl -s https://munchable.app | grep -o "<sv

A two-column desktop layout that has to be byte-identical on mobile

CogniPrep runs timed practice assessments. Each screen has a stimulus (a table, a chart, a matrix, a passage) and a set of answers, and they were all stacked in one narrow centred column. On a laptop that wastes the right half of the screen and pushes the answers, sometimes including the submit button, below the fold. A candidate on a per-item clock should not have to scroll before they can answer.The obvious fix is a two-column grid from lg up. The constraint that made it interesting: 44 screen

157 lines added, 1,849 deleted: what an anonymous path actually cost us

We shipped a feature that let a signed-out visitor play one free game per provider, and removed it three days later. The removal commit is the interesting artefact: 59 files changed, 157 insertions, 1,849 deletions.The point of this post is not that the product decision flipped. It is that the 1,849 number was not concentrated where you would guess. Ten files were deleted outright and they account for about 1,100 of it. The other 700 lines were spread across files that had nothing to do with gue

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🔍 My Next.js Portfolio Was Invisible to Google & ChatGPT — Here's How I Fixed It

👋 Hey! I'm Dhruv Sheladiya, a Full Stack Developer working with the MERN Stack, React.js, Next.js & Node.js.This is the story of how I found out my own portfolio was basically invisible, and the 5 fixes that changed that. 😬 The Embarrassing DiscoveryI Googled my own name. Here's what I found:What I expectedWhat actually happened✅ My portfolio at the top❌ Barely showing up✅ A nice preview image❌ No image at all✅ ChatGPT knows who I am❌ "I don't have information about that person"The site

Stop Fighting Portfolio Builders — Own Your Export

Most "portfolio builders" lock you in. DevCard exports anywhere: • self-contained HTML (host on GitHub Pages, anywhere) • GitHub README • React component (Pro) You own the file.Free = 3 generations. Paid = 15 (Premium) or 40 (Pro) runs/week. Stuck? A $5 / 10-run pack, no subscription. Subdomain hosting on paid, custom domains on Pro.Try it free: <a href="https://www.omega-dev.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.omega-dev.uk</a>

Building LastWave-Native: How Kotlin, Liquid Glass UI, and Real-Time Sync Are Reshaping Android Music Apps

Originally published on tamiz.pro. IntroductionAndroid music apps have evolved far beyond simple playback — today’s users expect seamless syncing, fluid animations, and interfaces that feel alive. LastWave, a conceptual next-generation music player, exemplifies how modern Android development leverages Kotlin, Liquid Glass UI principles, and real-time synchronization to deliver an immersive, responsive, and visually dynamic experience.This deep-dive explores the architectural decisions behin

Waitlist referral rewards: points, webhooks, and not paying self-referrers

I make Waitlister, a waitlist tool, so the examples here use it. The design carries over to most referral waitlists.A referral waitlist fits in one sentence: every subscriber gets a unique link, a signup through that link earns the referrer points, the list is ranked by points, and everyone can see their position. A waitlist tool can track all of that. The reward is where your own code usually comes in, because what you hand out, and when, is up to you. Why pointsA referral count measures o

Learning React by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello — Developer Book Review

Learning React by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello is one of those books that keeps showing up on every developer's recommended reading list — and for good reason.Published in 2020, this 310-page book covers javascript in a way that's both thorough and practical.Get Learning React on Amazon What Makes This Book Stand OutIn a field where technology changes every few years, Learning React has remained relevant because it focuses on principles rather than specific tools. Alex Banks and Eve Porcello

Angular Signals vs RxJS in 2026 — When to Use Each, Performance Benchmarks, and the Interop Pattern (Real Code)

"Should I use Signals or RxJS for this?" is the most-asked question in modern Angular code review. The bad answer — "use Signals everywhere, RxJS is legacy" — produces fragile WebSocket handling and re-invented switchMap. The other bad answer — "stick with RxJS, Signals are toys" — produces 30 lines of BehaviorSubject + takeUntilDestroyed to track which tab is active.The right answer is mechanical, not philosophical: Signals are pull-based, synchronous, fine-grained reactive values; RxJS is push

Who Provides the Best E-commerce Website Development Services?

Choosing an e-commerce development partner is one of those decisions that looks simple at first but becomes complicated once you actually start comparing companies.Almost every development company says they can build an online store. They talk about modern technologies, responsive design, custom development, integrations, scalability, and security. But the real question is: how do you identify a company that can actually build an e-commerce website that works well for your business?For me, the a

Free dev tools that run entirely in your browser (no uploads, no signup)

I have a bad habit of opening the same five browser tabs every time I work with JSON, want a strong password, or need to compress a screenshot before a PR. For the longest time those tabs were a mix of different sites — some behind signup walls, some that upload whatever you paste, a few with more ads than actual functionality.So I built a small collection of my own. It started with a JSON formatter and a character counter, and slowly grew into FreeToolsy — 90+ free tools for text, security, dev

Introducing RemotionUI

If you've made more than a few videos with Remotion, you know the pattern. Every new project starts with rebuilding the same pieces: text reveals, transitions, titles, animated stats. You copy them from an old project, fix the props, tweak the timing, and repeat.I got tired of that, so I built RemotionUI. What it isRemotionUI is an open source component registry for Remotion, built on the same idea as shadcn/ui. You don't install a package. You add a component with the shadcn CLI, and the s

Understanding JavaScript Data Types: A Beginner's Guide

JavaScript Functions – A Beginner-Friendly Introduction Today I learned about Functions in JavaScript.A function is a reusable block of code that performs a specific task. Instead of writing the same code again and again, we can create a function and call it whenever we need it.Creating a Functionfunction greet() { console.log("Hello, World!");}Here, "greet" is the function name.Calling a FunctionTo execute the function, we need to call it:greet();Output:Hello, World!🔹 Function with Parameter

Next.js 16 `instrumentation.ts` Is Stable: Wiring OpenTelemetry, Sentry, and Custom Spans Without a Wrapper

Next.js 16 instrumentation.ts Is Stable: Wiring OpenTelemetry, Sentry, and Custom Spans Without a WrapperThis article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review.Most observability integration problems in Next.js stem from initialization timing. Teams import Sentry or OpenTelemetry collectors in _app.tsx or middleware and watch silent failures cascade through production because the SDK never initialized before the first request landed. Next.js 16 solves this b

JAVASCRIPT FUNCTION:

Learning JavaScript step-by-step! Today, I made notes on one of the most fundamental concepts in JS: Functions, Parameters, and Arguments. Here is a quick breakdown: 1. What is a Function?A function is a reusable block of code designed to perform a specific task.Example:function biriyani() {console.log("Biriyani Ready");}biriyani(); // Output: Biriyani Readybiriyani(); // Output: Biriyani Ready2.Parameters vs. ArgumentsParameter: A placeholder variable declared inside the function definition

Props in React..

In React, props (short for "properties") are used to pass information from one component to another. The main purpose of props is to allow a parent component to send data to its child components.Props cannot be modified by the receiving component.They are strictly for reading data and should not be altered.Props can be updated when the parent component’s state changes.import React from 'react';function Greet(props) { return <h1>Hello, {props.name}!</h1>;}function App() { return

Sharing a canvas-generated image on iOS with the Web Share API

I run a small quiz site (a Rice Purity Test), and people mostly share their result as a screenshot in an Instagram or Snapchat story. So I added a "certificate": after the quiz, the browser draws a 1080×1920 PNG with the score on it, and a Share button hands it to the phone's share sheet.Drawing the image was the easy part. Getting the share sheet to behave on iOS took more care. Here's what mattered, in case you're building something similar. 1. Generate the image before the tap, not after

Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

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