web-development

I built a small, focused 2026 World Cup tracker for fans who want the essentials without opening five different pages: schedule, groups, standings snapshots, key fixtures, and the new qualification rules for the 48-team format. The site is here: https://wc2026.info/ A few implementation notes: The frontend is built with Next.js and TypeScript. The page is designed around quick scanning on mobile:…

The obsession with centralizing heavy compute on backend servers is a massive bottleneck for both cost and latency. In 2026, as more applications move to the edge, developers are realizing that the user's browser is an incredibly powerful, untapped compute engine. Recently, I challenged myself to build a free live chess game analyzer for my developer utility suite, CipherKit. The traditional arch…

The Problem Nobody Talks About Picture this: You're trying to find a place to meet up with friends. Someone suggests a coffee shop. It's 8 minutes from their house. It's 45 minutes from yours. You say yes anyway, because suggesting a different place feels awkward. This happens all the time — with friends, with remote teams, with family scattered across a city. And the worst part? Most "meet in th…

I recently built Radio Balkan — a single-page web player that puts 750+ Balkan radio stations in one place: no ads, no sign-up, no cookie banners. It's my first "real" shipped project, and the journey taught me more than any tutorial. Here are the parts I think other devs will find useful. The stack (deliberately boring) One static HTML file for the app — vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no framework. Supaba…

An image flattens everything into one frozen raster. HMML keeps the pieces - vector, text, raster, 3D, motion - composable and editable, created at the grain of a node, not a 1024-grid of guesses. A photo, an icon, a chart, a 3D scene - an image crushes them into one raster. HMML keeps each as itself: layered, addressable, recomposable. Create and edit at the grain of an element, a transform, a k…

The Problem Every time I needed a quick tool online, the same loop: Search for free PDF compressor Find a promising site Hit a sign-up wall or paywall Repeat for every tool I got tired of it. So I built CrispToolHub — a hub of 65+ free browser-based tools. What I Built crisptoolhub.com — 70 pages, 65+ tools: 📄 PDF Toolkit (10 tools using pdf-lib + PDF.js) 📝 Resume & Career (10 tools with Gemini A…

Every SaaS product eventually hits the same wall: users want to send emails, and they want to design them themselves. So you go looking for an embeddable email editor. Then you see the pricing. Unlayer starts at $250/month. Beefree SDK at $2,500/month. Chamaileon is "contact us". For a bootstrapped product, that's often more than your entire infrastructure bill. So I built Maillune. What it is A …

Most utility websites today feel overloaded. Too many ads. Too many popups. Slow loading. Confusing layouts. So I started building a small side project focused on a different approach: simple, lightweight, fast-loading tools that work instantly. The project includes things like: EMI Calculator Unit Converter JSON Formatter QR Generator Password Checker Typing Tools Mini Browser Games But the inte…

I built ResizeKB — a free image and PDF resizer built specifically for Indian users. 25+ tools. Zero server uploads. Pure HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Here's how and why. The Problem Every Indian applying for government jobs, exams, or bank accounts hits the same wall — portals with strict KB limits rejecting documents. UPSC wants photo under 300KB. SSC wants under 50KB. Banks need Aadhaar PDF under 50…

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built SignBridge is an educational, bidirectional communication bridge that breaks down the walls between the deaf/hard-of-hearing and the speaking world. Built with Next.js 15 and React 19, it enables flawless two-way communication:Type → Sign: Anyone can type English text or use speech-to-text, which instantly commands an on-…

Page builders won. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, and Framer cover most small business needs in an afternoon. So why would anyone still hand-code a marketing site in 2026? We run Blackstone Motion , a motion-first web studio. We build custom sites for service businesses, hospitality, and local brands that outgrew their template but do not need a full product engineering team. This is when hand-coded …

Crucible v1.1.0 — The App-Building Kit Release 🚀 Most component libraries give you a black box: install a package, fight its API, and inherit a runtime dependency you can't fully control. Crucible takes the opposite approach — it generates the source code for components directly into your project. No runtime. You own every file. v1.1.0 is the App-Building Kit release. What's new 14 new components…

Every developer has a set of small utilities they reach for daily — decoding a JWT, formatting JSON, generating UUIDs, testing regex patterns. Most of these tasks don't need a full IDE or installed software. So I built Filuni — a free, browser-based toolkit with 121+ tools across 12 categories. Here are my 10 favorites for developers: 1. JWT Decoder Paste a JWT token, instantly see the decoded he…

I got tired of the same routine. You want to shrink a video, you search for a "free online compressor," and it makes you upload the whole file to a server, sit in a queue, and then hands it back with a watermark on it. On a slow connection, a 200 MB clip means uploading 200 MB and pulling it back down again, just to make the thing smaller. And now your footage is sitting on somebody else's machin…

A form mostly uses the POST method when submitting. But there is another form method that’s rarely used: GET . When submitting a form using this method, a query string is added at the end of the URL you submit to that includes the form’s data. Probably its most common use case is for a search results page where results are shown based on a query string variable. Using GET works as a way to pass d…

Originally published at www.kznhost.com Sooner or later every professional who runs a website hits the same fork in the road: rent a VPS and run it yourself, or pay for managed hosting and let someone else run it. The industry will happily sell you either. Almost nobody will tell you honestly which one you actually need. So here it is. What a VPS Actually Costs The monthly price of a VPS is the c…

Originally published at www.kznhost.com Apache has been the default web server for most of the internet's history. It is stable, it is everywhere, and almost every tutorial assumes it. LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement that speaks the same configuration language - but underneath, it solves the core problem of serving web traffic in a fundamentally different way. That one architectural decision i…

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built A while ago, I built a multi-page Restaurant Web Application using React for a local venue, Bismillah Restaurant. It features an elegant responsive layout, a beautifully structured interactive menu across four detailed component routes, and smooth navigation. However, the communication system was completely static: it onl…

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built VKara is a browser-based karaoke room app for singing at home with friends or family. It is not trying to replace YouTube. YouTube is already great at playing videos. It already has almost every karaoke song we need. But YouTube is not really designed to manage a karaoke night where many people want to choose songs togeth…