Tech & Travel Notes

XSS, SQL injection, CSRF — these attacks have been around for decades and they still work. Here are the defenses every developer should know before shipping anything to production.

A hands-on tour of the Fetch API, from basic JSON calls to production-ready wrappers with timeout handling, request abortion, and streaming — everything you actually need to talk to a backend from the

I spent a week eating my way through Taipei and barely scratched the surface. From $2.50 fried chicken the size of your face to beef noodle soup that haunts your dreams — here's where to actually go,

I didn't expect a notebook and five minutes a night to change anything. Two months later, I had something more valuable than better moods — a record of my own thinking that revealed patterns I couldn'

A month traveling Vietnam's spine by train and motorbike — from Hanoi's intoxicating street-food alleys to the lantern-lit lanes of Hoi An and the relentless energy of Saigon. Real prices, real food,

Python's clean syntax makes it the go-to first language, but the path from 'hello world' to building real things isn't obvious. Skip the tutorial trap and start building — here's how.

Make is 50 years old and it shows, but I have started dropping a Makefile into every project I touch. Here is why — and the handful of targets that earn their keep across Python, Node, and Docker proj

Everyone goes to Macau for the casinos. I went for the egg tarts, the Portuguese pavement, and the quietest library I have ever sat in. Two days, no gambling, and I would do it again.

After 19 hours awake, you code at the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk — and yet the industry still celebrates the 3 AM commit. Sleep isn't a luxury for developers; it's the biological proc

Grid handles two-dimensional layouts with ease, and Flexbox nails one-dimensional alignment — but knowing when to reach for which one makes all the difference. Here's a practical guide to using both w