The fastest way to test a React idea without creating a new project
I used to create a new Vite project every time I wanted to try a React pattern. Install dependencies, wait two minutes, open the dev server, then finally write the component I actually wanted to test. By the time everything was ready, I’d sometimes forgotten the...
How I track freelance invoices without logging into an invoicing app
For the first two years of freelancing I used a well-known invoicing SaaS. It was fine until the moment I needed to send an invoice at 11pm on a deadline, opened the app, and found it had changed its UI, moved the billing section, and required me to verify my email...
I stopped switching to CodePen every time I needed to test a CSS idea
Every time I needed to test a quick CSS idea — a gradient, a clip-path, a grid layout — I’d open a new CodePen tab, wait for it to load, create a new pen, and paste in some boilerplate. By the time I was actually writing CSS, I’d lost the mental thread of...
How I built a Tailwind CSS playground without requiring Node, webpack, or a build tool
Every Tailwind tutorial I found online started the same way: install Node, create a project, configure PostCSS, set up a build pipeline. I just wanted to try a few utility classes. I didn’t want a 300MB node_modules folder before I even wrote a single line of...
How I Compress a Folder of Product Images to WebP in 60 Seconds Without TinyPNG’s Upload Limit
Tool I use – FWD Tools Image CompressorTinyPNG is great — until you have 40 product images to compress before a client deadline. The free tier lets you compress 20 images per month. After that, you’re paying per image or waiting until next month....Creator of FWD Tools
Puneet Sharma
Freelance web developer with 16+ years of experience.
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