NOTES / BEHIND THE WORK
Lessons learned. Ideas shared.
Notes on building, maintaining, and improving systems. Real problems, useful lessons, and the thinking behind the work.
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How to Secure Your Phone After It Is Lost or Stolen
A practical recovery order for a lost phone: block the SIM, protect banking access, recover email, remove the missing device, and prepare backup paths before it happens.
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The Risk Most Owners Notice Too Late: A Website Held Hostage by Its Vendor
A business website turns from an asset into a liability the moment domain, hosting, licenses, and access live with someone who can no longer be reached. Here is how to spot that risk early.
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Leaving the Marketplace? Do Not Just Move the Problem
Leaving a marketplace can be the right move, but owning a store means owning checkout, hosting, security, customer data, traffic, and maintenance.
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The Silent Threats Haunting Every LLM-Powered Application
Prompt injection, data leaks, runaway token bills, unmonitored endpoints, and policy violations. The real failure modes of AI apps, and the guard layer that stops them before they reach production users.
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Still Converting Designs to Code Manually? Meet Figma MCP Server
Figma MCP Server changes how engineers work. Not AI guessing from screenshots, but reading real data from Figma. Pixel-perfect without the drama.
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The Innovation Gap: Why AI "Stutters" When Writing Svelte 5 (An Architectural Deep Dive)
Why does AI struggle with Svelte 5? A deep dive into the "Innovation Gap," exploring Semantic Resets, Runes, and the Omnisite vision.
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Fail-Safe: Ensure WooCommerce Bulk Actions Never Disappear for Shop Managers
A robust snippet to force bulk actions to appear for specific roles, preventing other plugins from clearing them.
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When AI Takes the Wheel: A Note on 'Vibe Coding'
Vibe Coding asks us to do the impossible—take our hands off the wheel. A reflection from a web engineer on efficiency beating ego.
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How to Find the Source Code of Any WordPress Shortcode
Learn how to use PHP's Reflection API to pinpoint the exact file and line number where a WordPress shortcode is registered.
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