The Day I Found My Rate Site Was Showing Fake Prices
The worst bug a rates site can have is not a crash. It is confidently showing a wrong number. One day I…
my mistakes
The Moment I Decided to Tear Down My Own Design
Tearing down your own working code is a specific kind of pain. Version one of MaidsMe worked, two login systems, two dashboards,…
Live Tracking: The Feature That Looked Easy and Humbled Me
Every ride app has the map, the little car crawling toward the pickup pin, and I wanted it badly for the limo…
Installed but Dead: The Fatal Error That Would Not Let My Plugin Activate
My limo plugin uploaded fine, appeared in the plugins list fine, and then I clicked Activate and got the message every WordPress…
Cutting the Fields and Columns a Clothing Shop Did Not Need
When I first built the product form, I gave it everything a shop product could possibly have. Category. Color. Size. Name. Price.…
The Word Automatically Was Hiding Three Hard Problems
The plan sounded easy when I said it out loud. The tool joins the clips, then adds captions automatically. One sentence. But…
The Python Bug With No Error Message That Cost Me Days
I finished adding a feature to my video tool, ran it, and something was wrong. Not wrong in the way that gives…
The Small Feature That Got Complicated the Moment I Allowed Combinations
Once my tool could find scenes quickly, I added what felt like a tiny feature. Instead of always cutting from the middle…
How I Built My First Video Tool in Python, and Why It Started as a Mess
Everyone says start small. My first real project was not small at all. It was a desktop tool to turn long movies…