I have been shooting in color for years and converting to black and white as an afterthought. Click the B&W button in Lightroom, maybe drag the contrast slider, done. That is the wrong way to do it and my photos looked flat because of it. Black and white
I keep seeing people reach for moment.js, dayjs, date-fns, whatever, just to format a date. Every project I join has a different date library, half of them deprecated, and none of them do anything the browser can't already do. The Intl API has been shipping in every
I bought a Kindle Paperwhite in 2021 and I have not touched a physical book since. Not because I am some tech evangelist. I just got tired of moving boxes of books every time I changed apartments. I have moved countries three times. Books are heavy. E-readers are not. People
I've been driving in Uruguay for five years now. I learned to drive in Italy, spent years navigating UK roundabouts, and then moved here. Uruguay is different. Not harder, not easier, just different in ways nobody tells you about. Here is what I wish someone had told me
I used print() for everything until about two years ago. Debugging, monitoring, error tracking, all of it. Just print() scattered everywhere like confetti. Then I had a script running on a remote server that crashed at 3am and I had nothing. No log file, no timestamp, no clue what happened.
I have had a Garmin Forerunner 255 for about eight months now. Before that I used my phone for everything, step counting, run tracking, sleep, whatever. The phone was fine. It was also constantly dead at the wrong moment and I got tired of carrying it on every run. The
I spent two weeks setting up Elasticsearch for a project that had maybe 50,000 rows. Two weeks. Index mappings, JVM tuning, cluster config, and it still crashed on startup half the time. Then I deleted the whole thing and used PostgreSQL built-in full-text search instead. Took an afternoon. Same
I bought a standing desk three years ago because every productivity blog told me it would fix my back, my focus, and apparently my entire life. It didn't. It made my feet hurt. What actually fixed my back was changing how I sit, not whether I sit. But
I spent two years blaming my lens for soft street photos. Turns out I was just bad at focusing. Autofocus is great when your subject stands still and poses. Street photography doesn't work like that. People move, you move, the moment is gone before your AF motor finishes
I had a search page that fired a fetch on every keystroke. Worked fine until someone typed fast. Then the requests piled up, responses came back out of order, and the results showed garbage from three queries ago. Classic race condition, and I caused it myself. The fix is AbortController.