Ship small. Learn fast. Write it down.
Notes from a solo developer—practical snippets, tiny tools, and postmortems that don’t waste your time.
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Practical tutorials
Each post focuses on one small, useful idea you can copy straight into your project. No fluff — just hands-on examples that actually solve real problems.
Debug diaries
Honest write-ups of bugs, errors, and those strange issues that took hours to fix. I share what went wrong, what worked, and what I learned along the way.
Design decisions
I explore how small visual or structural choices change how code feels to use. From typography to layout, it’s all about clarity and flow in both UI and code.
Latest Posts
Typography Matters More Than You Think
When I first started designing my own blog, I thought typography was just about picking a font that looked “cool.” I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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