Tag: UI Design

Web Development Jul 12, 2026 • 4 min read

Building Analytics First, Not Last: Why I'm Rethinking the Data Layer in My Side Projects

Last month, I spun up a small betting pool app with some friends for the cricket season. It took me three weeks to realize I'd built the worst possible analytics setup: events scattered across three different database tables, no audit trail, and when a payout calculation went sid...

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Design & UX Jul 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Game Jams Matter More to Your Career Than You Think

Last month, I spent a weekend building a terrible weather app in Remix. It worked, barely, the API calls were inefficient, the UI was passable, and I shipped it anyway. That's when it hit me: I had more fun in those 48 hours than I'd had in three months of my day job. There was no...

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UI Design Career Growth

Career & Growth Jul 9, 2026 • 5 min read

AI Didn't Kill the Junior Developer, Taste Did

Last month, I was reviewing applications for a mid-level backend position at my company, and I noticed something that made me pause. Three candidates had nearly identical CVs: competent portfolios, solid technical chops, but nothing that suggested they'd ever questioned a decisio...

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Claude UI Design

AI & Machine Learning Jul 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Guessing on SaaS Budgets: What I Learned After Pricing Three Failed MVPs

I was sitting in a coffee shop in Islamabad, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed our next project would cost $12,000 and take four weeks. It didn't. We blew past both numbers by the time we got to payment processing, and I remember thinking: everyone talks about building fast,...

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UI Design CI/CD

Web Development Jul 9, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Sending Your Code to OpenAI: Why Local AI Agents Just Became Actually Viable

Last month, I was sitting in a client meeting when their security officer asked a question that made me uncomfortable: "Where exactly does our source code go when you use ChatGPT for debugging?" I didn't have a great answer. Sure, I could mumble something about API agreements and...

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Design & UX Jul 8, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Treating Document Templates Like a Nice-to-Have

I spent three hours last month reformatting a technical proposal. Three hours. Not writing it, reformatting it. The client wanted the heading colors changed from black to our brand blue, so I manually went through a thirty-page Word document, found every H2, and changed the color...

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UI Design

Design & UX Jul 7, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Building Search Features When You Should Be Building Resolution Engines

Last year, I spent three weeks debugging what seemed like a simple autocomplete issue in a logistics application. A user would type a shipment tracking code, and the system would sometimes return five results, sometimes fifty, sometimes none. The business logic kept failing downs...

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UI Design

AI & Machine Learning Jul 6, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Inferring State From Your Logs, Pick a Marker Instead

I was debugging a production issue at 2 AM last month when I realized I'd been doing something stupid. Our system was showing the wrong status for batch processing jobs because I'd built state inference on top of scattered log lines instead of a single, intentional marker. I kept...

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UI Design JavaScript

Design & UX Jul 5, 2026 • 4 min read

The Hidden Cost of "Moving Fast": Why I'm Building My Own Components Again

I remember the exact moment I realized I'd been building in autopilot. I was three projects deep into Material-UI, trying to customize a button for the tenth time by layering `sx` props and `styled()` wrappers, and my colleague asked: "Do you actually know how this button works?"

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UI Design

Design & UX Jul 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Voice-First Interfaces Aren't The Future, They're Already The Necessity

Last month, I was sitting in a small convenience store in F-10 Islamabad, waiting for my order. The shopkeeper was manually writing entries in a ledger while managing three phone calls and a queue of customers. I watched him fumble with a pos system on an old tablet, it was clearl...

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