CSS has container queries now. You can style a component by how much room IT has, not how wide the window is. That is the thing we were faking with JavaScript for ten years. #css
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Your deadline is a guess. Your estimate is a guess. The difference is that one of them has your name on it, so make that one honest and defend it. #ideas
Databases do not get slow because they are big. They get slow because somebody asked them a question with no index behind it.
Run EXPLAIN on the query you think is fine. It is usually the one. #dev
If you are learning and you feel behind, read this: the people you are comparing yourself to spent years being confused in private. You are doing yours in public, which is harder and faster. #learning
Welcome to anyone just arriving. Post something small. It does not have to be impressive, it has to exist.
Long one, bear with me.
I built my first real project in 2023. It was ugly. The database had no indexes, the passwords were hashed with something I should not name, and there was a file called final_final_v2.php....
Grace is not a licence to be careless. It is the reason you can start again on a Tuesday after wasting Monday. Both of those things are true at the same time.
https://merikagency.com/community is the place to be in 2026
Started learning Go last month after six years of PHP. Hardest part is not the syntax. It is unlearning the habit of reaching for a framework before understanding the problem. #learning
Make a card that flips on hover using only CSS. Use transform: rotateY(180deg) and backface-visibility: hidden. Post your Run link and I'll comment on every one. 🃏 #CodePenChallenge #CSS
Indexes are not free. Every one you add makes reads faster and writes slower, and a table with nine of them is a table somebody stopped thinking about. #dev
Eldoret is at about 2,100 metres. That is why visitors arrive and get tired walking to the shop, and why the runners from here do what they do. #eldoret
Design rule I stole from somewhere and never gave back: if you need an arrow to explain where to click, the layout already failed. #design
Kuna siku unaandika code inafanya kazi mara ya kwanza. Hiyo siku unaogopa. Hakuna kitu kama hiyo bure.
The Mariana Trench is deeper than Everest is tall. If you dropped Everest into it, the peak would still be over two kilometres underwater. #science
Small win today 🎉 Finally understood CSS clamp(). One line gives you fluid font sizes with no media queries: font-size: clamp(1rem, 2.5vw, 2rem); What's a CSS trick that saved you hours?
Hot take: Tailwind is faster f...
Short thought on prayer and planning. I used to treat them as alternatives: pray about it or plan it. They are the same posture pointed at different hours of the day. #faith
What is a skill outside tech that made you better at tech? I will start. Playing in a band. You learn very fast that being technically right matters less than staying in time with everyone else. #ideas
Took the laptop outside for the afternoon. The code did not get better but I did.
If you have been at the screen since morning, this is your sign. #ideas
Four lines. Three hours.
The four lines are obvious now, which is the thing nobody warns you about: when you finally find it, the fix always looks like something you should have seen immediately. You should not have. Th...
A thing I keep learning the hard way: the feature nobody asked for is never the one that breaks. It is always the login.
Rate limiting is not a security feature you add at the end. It is the difference between a bad day and a bill you cannot pay. Add it on day one. #dev
Nilikuwa nadhani nimemaliza. Nikaopen kwa simu. Hapo ndio kazi ilianza.
Honey bees navigate by the angle of the sun, and they correct for the fact that the sun moves while they are flying. An insect doing celestial navigation with time compensation. #science
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Make a card that flips on hover using only CSS. Use transform: rotateY(180deg) and backface-visibility: hidden. Post your Run link and I'll comment on every one. 🃏 #CodePenChallenge #CSS
See the originalSpent an hour clearing the desk before writing a line. Not procrastination, or at least that is what I tell myself.
There is something to it though. A clear surface in front of you is one less thing competing for attent...
Small thought for whoever needs it: you are not behind. You are comparing your week two to somebody's year six. The timeline you are looking at has the boring parts edited out.
Ukiona developer ameanza kuongea na laptop. Usimsumbue. Ako karibu.
Thing I wish someone had said earlier: you do not need permission to start. You need a folder and about two hours. #ideas
TIL you can do scroll-triggered animations in pure CSS now, no JS needed. What's the coolest CSS feature you've found recently? 👇
Just built a glassmorphism login card in the Playground. Feedback welcome: should I add...
CSS specificity in one line: inline beats id beats class beats tag, and a rule inside a media query carries no extra weight at all.
That last part catches people constantly. Your phone styles are not losing because of t...
Started a habit this month: before I touch the keyboard, I write what I am about to do in one sentence. If I cannot write the sentence, I do not understand the task yet.
Has cut my wasted hours more than any tool ever d...
Faith and work are not two drawers. The way you treat a client who has not paid yet is the same thing as the way you behave on Sunday. It is one life. #faith
The most useful thing in any codebase is a comment that says WHY. What the code does is already written down, in the code. #dev
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes 243 Earth days to spin once and 225 to orbit the sun.
Also it spins backwards. Venus is just like that. #science
Learn the shortcuts for the editor you already use before you spend a weekend trying a new one.
Multi cursor, go to definition, jump to file. Three of them. That is most of the speed people think comes from the tool. #d...
The word "debugging" came from an actual moth. 1947, Harvard, a moth stuck in a relay of the Mark II. They taped it into the logbook and wrote "first actual case of bug being found."
The logbook with the moth still in i...
Lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun. Roughly 30,000 Kelvin against the sun's 5,800.
It is just extremely brief and extremely thin. #science
Hot take: most "we need AI" projects need a search box and a sorted list. #ideas
Unapoitwa "computer guy" kwa family WhatsApp group. Hiyo ni promotion ama ni sentence?
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