7 CODER W🙂RDS is a word puzzle game for people interested in computer science in general. You are given 7 clues and you need to guess the word behind each clue by combining shuffled word tiles. To this day I have the game 7 Little Words on my phone, the old version. I play it all the time and I thoroughly enjoy it. I thought it would be cool to build a remake which only encompasses words from the
Is AI going to steal your job, or is it just another fancy autocomplete? The AI buzz is deafening, promising to revolutionize everything. But for us mere mortals building websites and shipping features, what's actually useful in the day-to-day grind? Let's cut through the hype and look at what's making a real difference. Forget robots taking over the world. The true power of AI for developers righ
Why Traditional URL Shorteners Are a Privacy Nightmare When you click a bit.ly link, here's what happens: Bit.ly logs your IP, timestamp, user agent They see the destination URL They track your browsing patterns They sell this data to advertisers Even if you trust the shortener, their database can be hacked. I built cryptly to solve this problem using blockchain and encryption. Encryption (Clien
As developers, we use online tools all the time — JSON formatters, CSS generators, minifiers, validators… But honestly, most of them feel like this: painfully slow After a while, it just gets frustrating. So instead of complaining, I decided to build my own. I didn’t want to create just another tool website. I focused on three simple things: Speed – everything should feel instant I started with a
Vendredi matin, 9 h 15. Françoise est dans son cockpit — trois écrans, à gauche l'Excel-pointeuse qu'elle tient à jour depuis quinze ans, à droite Sage, et au milieu Rembrandt depuis trois semaines. Sa tasse à la main, celle avec sa tête imprimée dessus que quelqu'un lui a offerte à Noël. Elle pivote sur sa chaise et me lance depuis son bureau : « Michel, combien on a d'inscrits pour la rentrée, d
« Hold on, we need to talk, this doesn't add up » Friday morning, 9:15 AM. Françoise is in her cockpit — three screens: on the left the Excel attendance sheet she's kept up to date for fifteen years, on the right Sage, and in the middle Rembrandt for three weeks now. Cup in hand, the one with her face printed on it that someone gave her at Christmas. She swivels in her chair and calls over from
If you've built more than one multi-step form in React, you’ve probably noticed a pattern… Every time you need: Step navigation (next / back / jump) Validation per step Shared state across steps Conditional flows …and every time, you end up rewriting the same logic again. It’s not hard — just repetitive, messy, and error-prone. Most approaches fall into two extremes: Too basic → you manage everyth
Dependency Injection (DI): It’s Not Just About Clean Code—It’s About Saving Server Costs Many developers view Dependency Injection (DI) as a high-level architectural concept for making code look “pretty.” But from my perspective, the ultimate goal of any advanced technique is simple: Enable the server to handle heavier loads while keeping the overhead costs low. DI is a secret weapon for exactly t