Lessons learned, problems and solutions
PHP, Go, Python, JavaScript, Rust — no universal answer, but clear criteria. A pragmatic, opinionated guide for picking the right language for the job, with a quick-reference table.
How I built a custom video player for ShareBox: fragmented ffmpeg streaming, JS state machine, exponential backoff watchdog, PGS subtitles with scale2ref, and the mistakes that taught me the most.
A ticket, an unknown tool, six services to migrate including gRPC. What I wish I'd read before starting: Bruno concepts, monorepo structure, .env for secrets, multi-env local/dev/prod.
I built a buying guide for retro portable consoles with purely aesthetic CSS — scanlines, Orbitron, custom properties — without a single line of JS. The real decisions, not the basics.
PHP can do what Node.js does: jump between tasks on a single thread. ReactPHP, PHP 8.1 Fibers, and why this doesn't replace real parallelism.
Google Search Console showed 0 indexed articles after 3 weeks. A look at the fixes: JSON-LD with articleBody via output buffering, PHP-generated ToC with stable IDs, and hybrid PHP/JS crawlable pagination.
Hands-on report of an authorized web pentest on a private BitTorrent tracker: Nuxt.js SSR + Node.js behind Cloudflare WAF. 3 findings (CORS, unbounded chat history, NUXT_DATA), Playwright trick for WebSockets, and what Cloudflare doesn't protect against.
Step-by-step guide to testing paid ads on a dev blog with €10: targeting recruiters and the Go/PHP community, writing ads that don't scare off Redditors, measuring ROI. Google Ads vs Reddit Ads.
A specialized CLAUDE.md file to guide Claude Code on responsive mobile and CSS design. Ready to copy into your project.
Text alignment, 44px touch targets, input font-size, safe areas, mobile-first media queries — concrete CSS rules for consistent and usable mobile rendering.