Debugging is just being a detective in a crime film where you are also the murderer. #dev
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Flexbox for one dimension. Grid for two. If you are fighting one of them, you probably picked the wrong one. #css #design
A thing church taught me that transferred straight into work: show up when it is boring.
Anyone can show up for the big Sunday. The people who matter are the ones setting chairs on a Wednesday when nobody is watching. S...
Someone asked me why I still write PHP in 2026. Because it runs on a shared host that costs less than lunch and it will still be running when the framework of the month is a GitHub archive. #php
Kuna siku unaandika code inafanya kazi mara ya kwanza. Hiyo siku unaogopa. Hakuna kitu kama hiyo bure.
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
Eldoret at 6am hits different. Cold, quiet, and the whole town smells like fresh bread from somewhere you can never find.
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.
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...
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....
Wi-Fi ikikatika mid-deploy. That specific silence. IYKYK.
Honest thing I have learned about freelancing in Kenya:
The client who negotiates hardest on price is the one who will ask for the most revisions. Every single time. Price accordingly from day one, not after....
Ignite
Lit the match. Match at competion in https://codepen.io/ . #CodePenChallenge
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.
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
Bananas are radioactive. Slightly. They contain potassium-40 and there is an actual informal unit called the banana equivalent dose used to explain radiation to the public.
You would need about 10 million bananas at onc...
Nilienda kwa interview, wakaniuliza "where do you see yourself in five years". Nikasema "honestly, debugging this same bug."
I did not get the job but I was honest.
https://merikagency.com/community is the place to be in 2026
Build in public. Not because anyone owes you attention, but because the version of your project you can describe out loud is always better than the one you only keep in your head. #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...
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
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
Reading Proverbs 16:3 again this morning. Commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established.
Not "your plans will be easy". Established. There is a difference and this year taught me what it is.
The deepest hole humans have ever dug is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia. 12.2 kilometres. The Earth's radius is 6,371 kilometres.
We have scratched 0.2 percent of the way to the centre. #science
What is the one tool you would not give up? Not a framework. A tool.
Mine is a plain text file called notes.txt that I have carried across four laptops.
If your JavaScript says "undefined is not a function", you did not break JavaScript. You called something before it existed. Nine times out of ten it is load order. #javascript
Glass Login
Glassmorphism login card. backdrop-filter does all the work, the rest is a border with a bit of white in it.
Works best over something with colour behind it, which is why the background is a gradient and not a flat grey...
If you only learn one thing about performance this year, learn that the fastest request is the one you do not make.
Cache it. Batch it. Or question whether you needed it. #dev
Typewriter Line
A typewriter effect in about fifteen lines of JavaScript. It types, pauses, deletes, and moves to the next phrase.
The cursor is a CSS animation, not part of the string, which is the bit people usually get wrong. #javas...
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
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of it in Egyptian tombs, over 3,000 years old, still edible. Low water, high acidity, and bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide. #science
Toast Stack
Toast notifications that stack, auto dismiss, and can be closed early. No library, about thirty lines.
The one thing worth copying is that each toast removes itself on transitionend rather than on a second timer, so it ...
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
Me: I will just quickly rename this variable.
Also me, 40 files later: what have I done.
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
Progress Ring
An SVG progress ring driven by stroke-dasharray. One circle, two lines of maths, and it animates for free because stroke-dashoffset is animatable.
Drag the slider. #javascript #design
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
Unpopular opinion: dark mode is not a feature, it is a baseline. Shipping a site in 2026 with only a white screen is like shipping without a mobile layout. #design
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...
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