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fragments.

On code, teaching, design, and the small things I notice along the way.

Vibe Coding vs AI-Assisted Programming: It's Not Just Semantics

The line between vibe coding and AI-assisted programming keeps getting blurred. Here's why the distinction actually matters — and when each approach makes sense.

Mar 25, 20266 min read

Code

Oct 2, 2025

A QUICK DIVE INTO REACT PORTALS

Yep, you read that right; Portals. Sounds like something straight out of a blockbuster, right? But here’s the twist: they’ve been sitting in React all along, hi...

3 min read

UI/UX

Jul 27, 2025

The Design Tricks That Make You Buy, Subscribe, and Regret It

A breakdown of deceptive design patterns: how fake scarcity, confirmshaming and hard-to-cancel subscriptions manipulate users, and how to spot them.

4 min read

Code

Apr 16, 2025

SEO for Noobs (Including Me): A Dev’s Guide to Not Sucking at Google

As a developer, there comes a moment in your career when a client looks you dead in the eye and hits you with the classic: “Are you good at SEO?” Or even better...

6 min read

Thinking

Jul 5, 2024

One year into Software Engineering: Challenges, Lessons and Growth.

This saying might seem a tad overused and generic but that’s because it’s an accurate depiction of life (my life at least). I’m going to share how I took the fi...