Taking Steps
Taking steps means doing, not just planning. In technology, business, and personal growth, it’s the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. One step taken is worth more than ten intentions. In development, “taking steps” is how…
Productive Debugging
Debugging is an essential part of software development, yet it’s often seen as a frustrating and time-consuming task. In reality, effective debugging can significantly boost your productivity, deepen your understanding of the code, and lead to more stable and reliable…
Integrity
In tech, it’s easy to measure productivity—lines of code, tickets closed, features shipped. But what about integrity? It’s not something you can commit to a repo or track on a dashboard, yet it shapes everything we build. It’s the quiet…
Could harm children
We write code to solve problems, build products, and move the world forward. But somewhere in the rush to innovate, we forget who’s quietly watching, tapping, scrolling—absorbing everything we create. Children. They don’t sign up for our apps, agree to…
The Year We Broke Everything
Twenty Years After Facebook, Connection Has Never Felt So Hollow In February 2004, a college student launched a small website called “TheFacebook” out of his Harvard dorm room. It was simple. You added your photo, your relationship status, maybe your…
Choice Paralysis in IT – Reflections from a Developer with Two Decades of Experience
I still remember the early days of my career. It was around 2005. I had an old laptop, Notepad, a local XAMPP server, and a world where PHP, MySQL, and a bit of jQuery were enough to build real things.…
Differentiate or Die: A Full Stack Developer’s Perspective
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, the phrase “Differentiate or die” carries significant weight. It underscores the importance of innovation, adaptability, and a unique value proposition—principles that resonate strongly with full stack developers who leverage PHP, cloud services, and AI…
Zen and the Art of Wearable Markup
As a full stack developer with a PHP background, I’ve always appreciated clean architecture, separation of concerns, and code that gracefully adapts to change. So when the debate around whether wearables should support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—or rely solely on…
Scenes from an Internet
In the fast-moving world of tech, it’s easy to believe there’s only one path to success: raise VC funding, scale fast, and aim for a billion-dollar exit. But in 2025, this startup-centric narrative no longer tells the whole story. Let’s…
Lowering the barriers
Why Great Documentation Is Still the Most Powerful Dev Tool? In the ever-evolving world of software development, flashy frameworks, AI-powered libraries, and cutting-edge tools are released every week. Their websites are polished, their names sound impressive, and their taglines promise…