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Tailwind CSS v4.1 Goodies
Text Shadows, Masks, and the Joy of Tailwind CSS v4.1 I wasn’t expecting anything special from v4.1. I was just clicking around, avoiding my mess of errors. But this update? Packed with stuff I’ve been hoping for. Text shadows, mask utilities, colored drop shadows. It finally feels like the Tailwind crew has been reading our…
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Make AI Your Mentor.
NOTE: While I am mainly referencing development, this can be applied to any domain, including personal hobbies. I’ve been seeing a ton of chatter about AI in dev circles lately, and honestly, it feels like most folks are missing the real opportunity here. Everywhere I look, people are treating these AI tools like a fancy…
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Graduated Into Uncertainty: Facing AI as a New Developer
Last week, my laptop threw the biggest tantrum after I did a super npm install. Yeah, I should have known better, but here we are. I did what anyone would do, opened LinkedIn and started doomscrolling. And, of course, right there in my feed, yet another person yelling about how “AI is about to take…
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Back to Algorithms
I can still practically smell the burnt coffee from my first “real” developer interview. I’d been holed up in my apartment for weeks, mainlining LeetCode like it was some kind of life or death Olympics. I had this wild idea that I’d have to rattle off Big O notations like a math robot. But then…
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Small Project. ReactJS or NextJS?
I thought finals week was messy, but the tech world? It’s absolute chaos. You hop on Twitter (or, sorry, “X” now, whatever), and it’s just this firehose of hot takes, new frameworks, “must-learn” libraries, and people arguing about whether React is dead, Next.js is the future, or if you’re a dinosaur for still using Redux….
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First one!
If you’d asked me last year if I’d ever start a dev blog, I probably would’ve laughed and changed the subject. Not because I’m some mysterious coding genius or anything (ha, I wish), but honestly? The idea of taking on another “should-do” in the tech world just made me want to throw my laptop into…