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Why I Built an Open-Source, Zero-Cloud Period Tracker with React 19 & Capacitor

In an era where health data is increasingly commodified, tracked, and exposed in data breaches, personal data privacy isn't just a bonus feature — it's a fundamental requirement.Most period and cycle tracking apps require cloud accounts, transmit deeply intimate health telemetry to remote servers, and integrate third-party ad SDKs. When data lives on a central server, it is vulnerable to leaks, corporate sales, and subpoenas.We asked a simple engineering question: What if the server simply didn'

A website for debloated open source alternatives

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The Grid Awakens: CSS Grid vs Flexbox — A Star Wars Tale

The Quest Begins (The "Why")Honestly, I was just trying to put together a simple admin dashboard. A sidebar, a header, and a grid of cards that needed to line up nicely on any screen size. My first instinct? Flexbox. I’d heard it was the Swiss‑army knife of layout, so I threw display: flex on the container, set flex-wrap: wrap, and called it a day. The cards looked fine… until I added a new widget that was twice as tall as the others. Suddenly the whole row shifted, leaving awkward gaps t

Typography Trends Every Digital Creator Should Know in 2026

Typography has become an essential part of digital content. For creators, choosing the right text style is no longer just about making words look attractive. Fonts can influence mood, strengthen branding, improve readability, and help content feel more recognizable. In 2026, digital creators have more options than ever, from expressive lettering and cursive styles to clean layouts and flexible variable fonts.Understanding the latest typography trends can help creators make their content more app

GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost

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Picking a CMS for Next.js is a rendering-mode decision

Where we lose, up front: if your marketing team expects to drag a hero section into place, Draftbase gives them a typed form UI and they will hate it. Prismic and Storyblok are honest answers to that requirement. Pretending otherwise wastes a month of evaluation.Everyone else, keep reading.Choosing a CMS for Next.js comes down to three tests, not a feature grid: can a webhook clear your cache tags, can the API serve unpublished entries for draft mode, and is the schema typed. Draftbase was built

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

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I Built Blason to Learn Full-Stack Architecture

Why I built BlasonBlason is an open-source personal project I built to improve my full-stack development and software architecture skills. What I wanted to learnI wanted to build a complete application rather than another isolated frontend project.The project covers:React and TypeScriptExpress backendSQLiteAuthenticationREST APIsBusiness workflowsFile handlingUser profilesQuests and submissionsCareer-related features ArchitectureThe application initially relied on Supabase.I late

Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

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App-like UX in Next.js 16.3

Building App-like Experiences with Next.js 16.3A hands-on look at how Next.js 16.3 helps apps feel fast and smooth, more like a single-page app, without losing the benefits of server rendering. Using four demo apps, it shows how features like Instant Navigations, Cache Components, Partial Prefetching, optimistic updates, Suspense streaming, offline retry, and View Transitions work together in real apps ⚡️ Sponsor: Arcjet AI compliance controlsProtect your AI applications from pro

Why your $300/mo onboarding widget is destroying your Core Web Vitals

We recently ran Lighthouse audits across 40 top B2B SaaS web applications. Over 65% of them were failing Interaction to Next Paint (INP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) targets.The culprit? Legacy onboarding and changelog widgets injecting 120KB–250KB of uncompressed JavaScript on initial page load.Here is a benchmark breakdown and how to get in-app experience infrastructure down to under 4KB. The Hidden Cost of Enterprise Onboarding ScriptsLegacy tools like Appcues or Pendo were designe

Why your GitHub stats card keeps breaking (and how I fixed mine for good)

My GitHub profile stats card kept showing up as a broken image. If you use one of the popular public stats card services, you have probably seen it too: the little sad file icon where your beautiful stats used to be.The reason is simple and structural. Those services run as one shared public instance, every profile README on the planet hits the same deployment, and the GitHub API rate limit (plus the hosting bill) belongs to one maintainer. When traffic spikes, the deployment gets paused and eve

Top 5 Free Online Case Converters (camelCase, snake_case, PascalCase & More)

Renaming a Python snake_case API response into camelCase for your JavaScript model, or turning a blog title into a URL slug, is exactly tedious enough to be annoying and exactly simple enough that firing up a script feels like overkill. A browser-based case converter fixes it in one paste. I compared 5, specifically for format coverage and — the detail that actually separates the good ones from the rest — whether they correctly parse text that's already in some other case format. 1. ToolTin

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

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Knowing When to Use If/Else vs. Switch in JavaScript

If/else statements - We all know and love them. While they are incredibly powerful, there comes a point where a long chain of conditions only makes your code look messy. Choosing between if/else and switch depends on readability, but there's a hidden pro tip that makes switch much more powerful than many people think at first. Traditional Approach: If/ElseNormally, we use if/else when our logic depends on complex ranges and multiple variables:// Hard to scan, bulky, and prone to typoslet we

I turned browser cookie counts into game currency - meet Crumbongo

Crumbongo started from a pretty stupid little question:What if the number of accessible cookies on the website you're visiting could become game currency?So I built it.Crumbongo is a tiny local Chrome game where you choose a website, let the extension count the accessible cookie records for that site, and turn only that number into game rewards.No cookie names or values are used for gameplay. From a tiny experiment to an actual little gameThe first version was basically:choose a website;che

22 tests passing, and my solver still told you to click a mine

I wrote a minesweeper probability solver. You hand it a board, it hands back the probability that each unknown square is a mine, so that when logic runs out and you have to guess, you at least guess the cheapest square.It has 22 unit tests. They all pass. I also cross-checked it against an independent brute-force implementation — one that enumerates every legal mine placement and counts — over 8,000 random boards. Maximum deviation: 5.551e-16. That is floating-point noise. There is no meaningful

Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #151

Signup here for the newsletter to get the weekly digest right into your inbox.weeklyfoo #151 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 36 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy! 🚀 Read it!Agent Memory as a Moat: How persisting and scoping agent memory turns stateless models into systems that compound context over time by Redis / ai,agents / 17 min read 📰 Good to knowMaximizing the Value of Your Claude Code Sessions: Clear context between task

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Incomplete Weather App Project

I uploaded my incomplete weather app to a GitHub repository.The UI is still extremely unpolished, and the weather information doesn't get displayed properly. However, all the data is fetched properly. If you're learning Web Development, I recommend messing around with the code and seeing if you can get the UI components to display properly. Take it as a little learning challenge.Here's the link to the GitHub repository:https://github.com/joelEzema/incomplete-weather-app