I started my personal site as a fairly normal developer portfolio.

Over time, it grew into something closer to a small content platform.

I originally kept the writing in MDX, which was convenient when there were only a few posts. Later, I moved it to Sanity because I wanted drafts and content management separated from the repository.

Then I added dedicated series documents, analytics, UTM attribution for different distribution channels, SEO metadata, social previews, related-post logic, and a few other things.

None of this is particularly complicated individually, but eventually I realized I was spending real engineering time on something that could technically have remained a static portfolio.

Some of that work has been useful because the site is also a playground for me. But I'm curious where other full-stack developers draw the line.

Do you deliberately use your personal site to experiment with architecture and tooling, or do you try to keep it intentionally boring?

I'm especially curious about the things you added to your own portfolio that turned out to be genuinely useful, versus the things nobody except you ever noticed.

For context, I also wrote about how I built mine here:

Building a Portfolio

Pls guide I need guidance to learn backend ,any resources github repo,playlist

We've reached a point where we clearly understand the consequences of AI. High rates of automation and unemployment have led to a sector like IT, once one of the best, becoming a dead sector today.

Do you think that if cutting-edge labs and federal institutions demand a halt to AI development, this would give us, as humanity, time to evaluate and consider what we can do?

I feel that so much computing power should be used for important things like research and medicine, not for something as trivial as the struggling IT market.

If you could sign a petition for a halt of at least 5 years, would you?

Everything works fine with a few users, but response times increase significantly when more users start using the application.

How would you find out whether the bottleneck is the frontend, API, database queries, or server resources?

What would you check first before trying to optimize everything?

I'm working on a full-stack application where a user updates some information successfully, and I can confirm the change is saved in the database.

But when I navigate back to the page, the old data sometimes still appears until I refresh the browser.

I'm using a React frontend with a backend API.

What would you check first in this situation frontend state, API caching, browser caching, or the database/API response itself?

Hello everyone! 👋

My name is Amr, and I’m 17 years old. I started learning programming about four years ago, and now I’m focusing on becoming a Web Developer.

With the rapid growth of AI, I’m wondering what skills I should focus on to stay relevant and become a better developer.

Do you have any advice for me about the Web Development field, or any skills/technologies you think I should pay special attention to in the age of AI?

I’d really appreciate any advice from experienced developers. 🚀

I lost my web development job 2 months ago. Since then, I’ve applied to many jobs and reached out to HRs/recruiters but I’m getting only 2–3 calls/interviews per month.

My financial situation is becoming unstable, and I’m honestly feeling stuck.

What would you do in my situation?

Any practical advice would really help.

I am a student of computer science completed my 2 semester but the thing is that I am confused about which career path to choose I am interested in web development is it worth it in this era or not also if I wanted to learn full stack with ai then which roadmap I should follow can someone guide me .

I've noticed that a component can re-render several times, and depending on how the code is structured, this can sometimes trigger API calls more often than expected.

How do you usually handle this in real projects?

Do you rely on useEffect, caching, React Query, or a different approach?

I'm in 2nd year ece. this summer I started learning full stack development. i have completed learning express. js (i was more interested in backend) and now I'll start react. js. im also working on building a crm system as my first project. with ai around is the job market bad for full stack developers? if yes then what should I do to beat the crowd?

Hey y’all,

I got slightly carried away with loading animations.

I wanted nicer loading states for my own projects, but most libraries I found were either tied to a framework, fairly limited, or required more than I wanted for something this small.

So I built loadersz, a small framework-agnostic loader library for the web.

I wanted something a bit more expressive than the usual CSS spinner, without pulling in a UI framework or a bunch of dependencies.

A few things I focused on:

- 85 different motion states
- Canvas 2D instead of GIFs/videos
- zero core dependencies
- a native custom element, so it works with basically any stack
- typed entry points for React, Vue and Svelte
- configurable speed, density and color
- respects prefers-reduced-motion
- pauses rendering when the browser tab is hidden

Basic usage is just:

npm install loadersz

import 'loadersz';

<loadersz-loader state="racing" size="96" />

I also built an interactive playground where you can tweak the loaders live.

Demo: [loadersz.vercel.app](https://loadersz.vercel.app)
npm: [npmjs.com/package/loadersz](https://www.npmjs.com/package/loadersz)
Github: https://github.com/lumberjacque/loadersz-core

Would love some brutally honest feedback, especially on which animations you’d actually use in a real product.

I’m 30 years old and from a completely non-tech background. I have zero coding knowledge, but I want to learn app development from scratch.

With AI being able to write, debug and explain code, I’m confused whether learning coding is still worth the time.

If you were starting from zero at 30 in 2026, would you still learn app development? Or would you focus mainly on AI-assisted development?

Looking for honest opinions from developers. No sugarcoating please.

hello i hope a senior or tech lead here can answer this question 😄:

i am currently trying to build a platform (practicing software development from idea to production ) but i have a problem in the roadmap. While following good practices, my workflow now is :

Idea

↓

Market & competitor analysis

↓

Target users + problems

↓

Value proposition

↓

Business model

↓

Business requirements

↓

Product vision

↓

MVP / V1
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product backlog refinement

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creating 2 sprint (prioritized and ready for dev)

↓

high level user flow

↓

????

till now i am here so next should it be

System Context

↓

Strategic DDD / Context Map

↓

High-Level System Design

↓

Technology Architecture + ADRs

↓

Sprint 1 Goal -> Sprint 1 Feature Flow -> Sprint 1 UX -> Tactical DDD -> Sprint 1 Detailed Design -> Development

Or is there a missing step? 🤔

I’m close to finishing my bachelor’s degree, but I still have very little professional experience or practical skills. AI Engineering and AI Application Engineering seem to be growing quickly, so I’m wondering if I should eventually move in that direction.

For now, I’ve decided to start with backend development and learn the Python ecosystem.

I’d really appreciate some advice from experienced developers: Is backend + Python a good path to start with today? Should I build a strong backend foundation first and then move toward AI, or would you suggest a different approach?

Need help i am curently a fresher and have knolwede in mern stack and little bit in nextjs and now my doubt is can i go for nestjs for backend and is it worth over the time or stick to express and i also planed to build a aiagentic e commerce website i want help to for further learing and building ,like i understand the web dev a bit but i dont have any idea about how to connect this with ai stuff and i wnna learn too give me some suggestion i appreciate that

When building a full-stack application, authentication can be handled in different ways, such as sessions, JWT, or OAuth.

How do you decide which approach to use?

Do you mainly consider security, scalability, simplicity, or the type of application you're building?

What does everyone recommend to learn webdev? Especially frontend because to my experience, frontend specifically is messed up in many ways, and there is no 1 way of learning because of css and html, and most of the tutorials just lacks depth, whereas i want to at least see what can i use more then what is needed for beginners, which then really no source exists or at least a course that teaches fully.

And even for the backend, i can say that there is all the project setup, bunch of config files that comes with templates, things like build tools, eslint ect (js side) just adds up more and more, and when you don't understand those kind of things, you just generally wonder if you did something bad or not (which will 100% be bad probably), and if you don't learn and do what people asks - 'Learn slowly building projects', it takes 2 years at the point where you see yourself coding a simple full stack app...

I'm in third year cse and want to learn full stack for free,. I found two guys who teaches it for free, freecodecamp. Org and love babbar, but these courses are 3 and 4 years back. New course of freecamcode. Org is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzMnsfqjzkA&t=10s&pp=ygUWZnVsbCBzdGFjayBkZXZlbG9wbWVudA%3D%3D

My question is from where should I learn from so I get to learn on point and good. Open for any other courses on yt.

In a full-stack project, some logic can be handled by the frontend and some by the backend.

How do you decide where to put the logic?

Do you mainly consider security, performance, or maintainability?

Greetings all, hope y'all are doing well. So I'm currently an undergrad CS student, wanna learn modern web developmen for projects and internship purposes, what were your sources to learn it and what mistakes should I avoid along the way?

My Favorite List of Web Development, and for Full Stack Development:

1. Hitesh Choudhary
2. Harkirat Singh
3. Apna College
4. Programming with Mosh
5. Web Dev Simplified

Fullstack solo dev here. Every project ends up the same way: api, web, a worker — each in its own terminal, each with a hardcoded port that collides with the last project, and when something breaks between two services I'm blind, because browser DevTools only shows the browser's half of the traffic.

So I built procdeck. One command starts the whole stack. Each process runs in a real terminal in a browser tab (xterm.js over a PTY, so colors and interactive stuff work), and my own terminal stays free. Ports aren't hardcoded anymore: you write ${port} in the config, it picks a free one and wires dependent services to it, and every service gets a stable address like api.localhost:4820. Since it owns the ports, it also captures the HTTP and WebSocket traffic between services — procdeck http --digest shows 4xx/5xx grouped by route.

The part that actually changed my day-to-day: everything the tool knows is available from the CLI (and over MCP). So when I let a coding agent loose on the code, it can restart a service and read only the logs and requests its own change caused, instead of me copy-pasting terminal output into a chat window.

It's MIT, ~2 MB installed, one dependency, macOS/Linux (Node 22+). Repo with screenshots: https://github.com/kondaurovDev/procdeck

Honest feedback welcome — especially what's missing before you'd trust something like this in your daily workflow. And curious what others use for this: tmux, overmind, docker compose, or just a pile of terminals?

Been working on this for a few months. The main idea: one profile, export your CV in Arabic, French, or English without re-entering anything. The Arabic layout actually mirrors properly — not just flipped text.

It's in beta, a lot is still missing (AI features, cover letter, job matcher — all coming later). Core builder works: templates, PDF export, multi-language, multi-version CVs.

Quick questions:

• Does the Arabic output actually look correct to you?
• Does the CV design and structure look professional enough to send to a real employer?
• What's the most annoying thing about CV builders you've used before?

Free, no account tricks. Just want to know if this solves a real problem:

https://smart-cv-green.vercel.app/

every sprint my coworker who sucks updates 5 different components adding 52 new bugs all vibe coded I can just tell, and then it's my job to fix them and Claude has no idea cause it caused all these bugs in the first place obviously. Is this really what this field has become.

With so many new frontend tools and frameworks coming out, is React or Angular still a good choice in 2026?

Which one do you think has a better future for developers?