May 15, 2026 | Dev Tools
When I first started freelancing, I sent invoices as Word documents. The client would open it, the formatting would be slightly off, and I’d look less professional than the work I’d just done. I moved to Google Docs. Better, but sharing a link felt...
May 14, 2026 | Dev Tools
I have Postman installed. I never open it anymore. Not because it’s a bad tool — it’s genuinely powerful. But for quick endpoint tests during development, the overhead is real: launch the app, find or create the right collection, set up environment...
May 13, 2026 | Dev Tools
Your employer tells you the job pays £45,000. But what actually lands in your bank account each month is considerably less — and unless you understand exactly where the difference goes, it’s hard to budget properly, negotiate confidently, or know whether that...
May 12, 2026 | Dev Tools
If you’ve been writing CSS for more than a year, you’ve probably typed display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; so many times it’s burned into muscle memory. But the moment a layout gets slightly more complex — say, a card grid...
May 9, 2026 | Dev Tools
When working on React projects, I still copy plain HTML quite often. Sometimes it comes from: old Bootstrap templates CodePen examples Tailwind snippets landing page sections client-provided HTML files static website code The problem is that raw HTML doesn’t work...