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Articles on AI coding tools, self-hosting, web development and the apps I use every day. When a post quotes a price, a benchmark or a version number, it's the one I checked while writing it.
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My developer blog went from 1,613 Google impressions a day to about 35 in under three weeks, while most pages kept their positions. These are the checks I ran, what each one showed, and what was actually wrong.
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Why I dropped the cyan-and-cards look every dev portfolio has, and rebuilt mine as a warm editorial site with one accent, magazine rows, and a flash-free theme toggle.
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Cross-document view transitions let plain links fade, slide, and morph between separate HTML pages, no JavaScript framework needed. Here is how to set them up and what to watch for before you ship.
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BrightSmile Dental is a full-featured dental clinic website with a modern, clean design and professional healthcare aesthetic, featuring a fully responsive layout optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, interactive components with smooth animations, and comprehensive information architecture.
About the writing
Most posts start as a problem I hit on client work or my own projects that week.
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Claude Code setups, permission modes and plugins, plus the security side, like the npm hack that hunts AI tool keys.
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VPS pricing, Docker, Coolify and object storage, with 2026 prices instead of the numbers older guides quote.
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JavaScript, .NET and front-end choices, like when HTMX beats React and what RFC 10008 changes for APIs.
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The plugins, launchers, browsers and terminal tools I actually use, and what made me switch.
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What the posts cover and how they differ from the devlogs.
Building web apps with Laravel, Next.js and Node, the editors and tools I use every day, AI in day-to-day coding, design systems, and running software on my own servers.
A post is about one topic and reads on its own. A devlog entry is a day of work on one build, and the entries for a build read in order, bugs included.
Yes. Email safi.abdulkader@gmail.com or use the contact page.
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