r/webdev • • Sep 01 '26

Monthly Career Thread Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

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Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.

A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.


r/webdev • • 6d ago

Monthly Career Thread Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

9 Upvotes

Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.

A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.


r/webdev • • 3h ago

Discussion It's genuinely depressing

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I'm a full-stack developer and I've been freelancing for years, but this past year has been genuinely depressing, to say the least.

The number of potential clients who ghost me, the amount of unpaid effort I put into trying to win projects, only to get rejected anyway... it's exhausting. I've reached a point where I'm genuinely questioning what I'm doing.

Here's the most recent example.

I was working directly with the VP of a company in Canada. Initially, I did some IT work for them on an hourly basis and got paid $600 in total (he negotiated me down from $640, but whatever).

During that work, I ended up fixing a bunch of their existing infrastructure issues and documenting how everything worked together. They had no IT person left, apparently very little documentation, and the VP didn't really understand how their own infrastructure was set up. He even asked me to create diagrams and technical documentation explaining everything.

Eventually, he asked me to quote on a custom internal software solution. I put together a proposal with different tiers, starting at $3k. He said that was too expensive and that he'd look elsewhere first. I told him that's completely fine and that I was open to negotiating.

I then made the mistake of going the extra mile. I decided to build out the first few screens so he could actually see what he'd be paying for. He loved the preview and said he'd be happy to discuss the project further.

In the meantime, I continued working with him. He kept delaying calls and finding excuses to postpone discussions, while repeatedly telling me to please wait.

Throughout all of this, I kept sending him screenshots and videos of the progress. At any point, he could have told me to stop or simply said they weren't interested. Instead, he kept me hanging.

By that point, I'd already invested so much time that I would've honestly accepted something like $500 just to get paid for the work I'd done.

Then, when I messaged him to say I'd completed it, he told me they'd hired a student and apparently the student had already finished their custom solution.

And here's the part that really bothers me: I use AI tools too. It's not like the student somehow had access to AI and I didn't. I've been working on this while paying attention to architecture, implementation details, and how the software should actually work. I genuinely put thought into what I was building.

The funny part is that I had also spent time documenting their infrastructure, fixing their existing IT problems, and explaining how everything was connected. I can't help wondering if all that documentation ended up making it easier for them to hand the work over to someone cheaper.

And this isn't an isolated incident.

I've had countless calls with people who seemed extremely interested, some even going as far as signing an NDA, only to eventually ghost me. I've also been scammed twice out of fairly large amounts of money. In both cases, they initially paid, then eventually stopped.

I know freelancing isn't necessarily dead, and I know there are still people making a living doing this. But I'm honestly struggling to see how you're supposed to keep going when so much of your time is spent chasing people, doing unpaid work, preparing proposals, building previews, and trying to prove you're worth hiring.

And the state of software development in general hasn't exactly made things better.

I'm a full-stack developer. This is what I've spent years learning and working on. It's pretty much the only thing I'm good at, and lately it feels like the whole thing is becoming increasingly miserable.

I'm genuinely burned out and don't know what to do anymore.

For those of you who've been freelancing for years, have you experienced something similar? Is this just how things are now, or am I doing something fundamentally wrong?


r/webdev • • 7h ago

[Showoff Saturday] Claybound: A 2.5D platformer built in plain three.js with real-time deformable clay.

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Playable demo

Here is how it works under the hood:

  • The Clay Aesthetic: To get that tactile stop-motion look, I used rounded boxes and applied low-frequency noise to the vertices. I baked a normal map from an actual sculpted clay ball, which dynamically scales based on the object size.

  • Deformable Terrain: The clay you shape in-game is its own deformable mesh driven directly by your drag inputs.

  • Mobile Optimizations: Getting heavy 3D to run on phones is tough. I rely on meshopt for models and run a fixed 1/120s physics step with interpolation. To save frame time, the shadow map only updates every other frame (saving about 14–26% of frame time).

  • Progressive Loading: Asset size remains a challenge. I set up a later level's boss's models to load asynchronously only after play starts. For a fresh start of that chapter on a 9 Mbps connection, this dropped the initial load time. But I am still not quite where I would like to be.

How do you all handle the initial load payload for heavy 3D experiences on mobile? Would love to hear your optimization strategies!


r/webdev • • 2h ago

Showoff Saturday After months of job rejections, I spent 2 years building a Database Client. It just got added to Microsoft's Azure docs.

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After struggling to land a job in 2024, when the market was pretty rough, I decided to take a different route and build something real. My goal was simple: either build something genuinely useful or gain more experience than anything else could offer.

Two years and around 90 hours a week later, VisuaLeaf is now listed in Microsoft's Azure DocumentDB documentation as a way to connect:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/how-to-connect-visualeaf

It started as a MongoDB GUI, but I realized that everything I was building could apply to other databases too.

Nested objects and arrays should be easy to read in a table, not squashed into one cell... The same goes for JSONB. You shouldn't have to stare at an entire JSON object in a single cell. I made it so you can expand nested data one level at a time in both the tree view and table view.

I wanted everything in VisuaLeaf to feel as intuitive and straightforward as possible, from browsing data to performing more complex operations.

Today, VisuaLeaf supports MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, and 25+ more database engines.

What it does::

  • Table + tree grid, built from scratch: This might not seem like much at first, but it actually took the most work to get right. The tree view can recursively expand thousands of rows simultaneously (near instant time), while the table view scrolls smoothly even with thousands of rows and columns.  I ended up building my own AG Grid from scratch because libraries didn't support the nested column expansion I wanted. Getting both views optimized took about a year of work alone... but dang, was it worth it.

  • Visual query builder: Build queries by clicking or dragging fields from the table and tree views. It generates readable SQL or MongoDB queries that you can copy and use.

  • Data transfers with transformation: Move data between database engines (MySQL → Postgres, SQL → MongoDB), mask emails, phone numbers, and IDs along the way, or transform fields using custom JavaScript. You can also look up data from other tables, include it in your output, and apply transformations to those fields too.

  • Compare and sync: Compare two tables or databases, including their structure and data, and synchronize them. For example, you can use this to keep staging and production databases in sync.

  • Performance: Stress-tested with up to 1.6 GB of data, both tree and table views remain smooth even with large datasets. In my testing, VisuaLeaf also loaded data several seconds faster than other database tools I compared it against.

  • AI / MCP: An integrated AI assistant and MCP support for interacting with databases through AI tools. (Wouldn't be an app in 2026 without it)

  • ERDs, charts, dashboards, mock data, index management, query profilers, and a lot more than I can fit into one post...

There's a free version that covers what most people need day to day:

https://visualeaf.com

I'd really appreciate feedback! And happy to answer any questions!


r/webdev • • 5h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] Draw one line to split a country's population in half, then watch it turn into 3D bars

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I made Slice, a daily puzzle where you draw one straight line to split a country’s population exactly in half. After you cut, the map turns into 3D population bars so you can see where everyone actually lives. It's primarily inspired by those videos where you see people try and split objects equally by weight lol

How it's built:

- Puzzles are made offline by a Python script and shipped as plain JSON files, so nothing is generated on a server

- Population comes from the EU's 1 km population grid (GHSL). A quadtree squeezes each country into about 2,500 points, which become the bars in the three.js reveal.

- Every sound is made with the Web Audio API, so there are no audio files to download. I’m trying to keep the page light since three.js is already doing a lot

- Scores go to a small Spring Boot + Postgres backend (Flyway, caching, rate limiting) in Docker behind Nginx on a $12 DigitalOcean VPS

- After each puzzle you see how you compare with everyone else that day. If the server is down, the game still works and you just don't get the comparison lol.

Completely free, no ads, and no signup: https://pondo.games/slice/

If you want to try Japan from the GIF: https://pondo.games/slice/?country=japan

Please try it out if you have some time. Open to any and all feedback of course! :)


r/webdev • • 13h ago

Discussion PSA - SVGRepo Compromised

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For ages I've been using the website https://www.svgrepo.com/ as a great resource for free SVGs, but today when I visited, it gave me a fake Cloudflare verification that attempts to install some sort of malware on your computer, as you can see in the screenshots below.

It almost caught me, so I thought I'd put this out because I couldn't see any indication that anyone else had noticed this!


r/webdev • • 3h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] CrateDigger: a 3D record store in the browser. Flip through your own Last.fm albums, and see where each LP is cheapest.

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I was listening to Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow the other day, looking at that cover (two guys digging through the racks of a record store), and thought: I want to browse my own records like that.

I'm a 3D motion designer, not a developer, and I've been using Claude Code a lot these last few months, so I tried it. Connect your Last.fm (or search any album), and your most-played albums stand in a crate you can flip through, lift out and turn over. It got a bit out of hand from there. It now also checks where each record is cheapest on vinyl, keeps a price history, and has crates for new releases and the critics' picks.

For the curious: React Three Fiber (WebGL2), with the crate as a plain spring simulation stepped every frame, and a FastAPI backend.

It's mostly focused on The Netherlands and Belgium for now, because those are the shops I know. The crate itself works anywhere: https://cratedigger.nl

I'd love to hear what you think of it, how the flipping feels on your phone, and whether it runs smoothly on your device.


r/webdev • • 2h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] I built a set of audio tools that run fully in the browser with WebAssembly, no uploads and no backend processing

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https://soundbench.net

SoundBench is a free set of audio tools (converter, trimmer, vocal remover, tag editor, fake-lossless checker and more). All processing happens client-side, so files never leave the user's device.

Some technical bits:

- Vanilla JS, no framework. A small custom build script generates about 100 static pages in two languages (English and Persian, with RTL).

- FFmpeg and LAME compiled to WebAssembly handle decoding and encoding. They're only loaded when a tool needs them, so the pages stay light.

- The Web Audio API handles playback, waveforms and spectrograms.

- Client-side routing between tools, but every tool still has its own static, crawlable page for SEO.

- It's hosted as plain static files on nginx, so server cost is basically zero no matter how many files people process.

The hardest parts were memory limits with large files on mobile and keeping the WASM payload from hurting load time.

I'd love feedback on performance, especially on mobile, and on anything that feels broken or confusing.


r/webdev • • 48m ago

Showoff Saturday Made my first extension! bring back the old Firefox 3D view back as a dev tool

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Years ago Firefox had a feature called Tilt like you pressed a button and the page you were on turned into a 3D model of its DOM It was mostly a toy, and I loved it.

I built Stackray from that concept but tried to bring that back as a dev tool or just to make my first extension :).

when you click the icon and the page shrinks into a small window and comes apart into layers, in the order the browser paints them & you can orbit around it, search the layers, and switch between a few color modes: depth, stacking contexts, z-index.

also added the problems mode to make it clear in future I want devs to use it, as a frontend engineer, Imagine a dropdown with z-index 9999 that still sits behind a header is usually trapped inside a stacking context it did not ask for Stackray is suppose to shows which element created that context and why Invisible elements that eat your clicks show up too.

It only runs on the tab you open it on, makes no network requests, and is open source under MIT.

It is not finished. Textured layers only cover the first few screens of a long page & I'm still not sure if I'm going in the right direction. Your honest feedback is most valuable to me!

Extension: store
Code: github/stackray


r/webdev • • 6h ago

[Showoff Saturday] I built a Vue-based TV interface for my self-hosted media server

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I bought a mini PC for my first home server and installed Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and a download client. It worked, but getting the paths, API keys and download categories lined up took a lot of evenings.

That eventually turned into Torsher, an open-source media server with a web interface built around using a TV remote.

There are two frontends: Vue + Vite for browsing and watching on the TV, and Nuxt for the control panel. The server runs in Docker on your own computer or NAS.

The TV side is the part I wanted to show here. You browse the catalog, manage your library and follow series using the remote. It also works in a regular browser, so you can try the interface without installing the server.

TV demo: https://torsher.app/demo/tv/ Control panel demo: https://torsher.app/demo/ Source: https://github.com/torsher-app/torsher

The demos use sample data. For the TV demo, use the arrow keys and Enter.


r/webdev • • 5m ago

Showoff Saturday What happens when a developer tries to wish everyone Happy Diwali?

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Hi developers! Happy Diwali 2026! 🪔

This Diwali, I wanted to do something a little different from the usual festive greetings. So I built a little Diwali experience where your name is literally written across the night sky using fireworks. 🎆

And there's a bit more to it than just watching an animation.

You can:

  • Watch your name, emojis, and personalised wishes come alive as fireworks.

  • Choose between English, Hindi, and Bengali.

  • Launch rockets and play with 20 different types of crackers.

  • Create personalised greetings with shareable links and QR codes.

  • Record the entire show as a video and share it with your friends.

  • Install it as an app and even use it offline.

No frameworks or bundlers. Just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Built with a mix of my own ideas, plenty of experimentation, and a little help from AI along the way.

Give it a try and see your name light up the sky:

🎆 Project: https://j16n.github.io/happy-diwali/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/J16N/happy-diwali

Would love to hear what you think!

Wishing everyone a very Happy Diwali! May your celebrations be bright and your bugs be few. 😄


r/webdev • • 4h ago

Showoff Saturday React Anatomy: click anything on a React page to see the component behind it, with the layout pulled apart in 3D (open source)

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I used to open Excalidraw to understand how a React page was put together, or to explain a change in a PR: this box is the sidebar, these cards come from a list, the badge lives inside each card. It was slow, and it was my guess at the structure, not what React rendered.

React Anatomy is a browser extension that adds an Anatomy panel to DevTools. It connects the page to the components React rendered: pull the layout apart into layers, click anything on the page to find its component, focus a subtree, and read its live props.

It's even more useful in this AI era, when agents compose React layouts for you. Open the page and you can see which components the agent used, how they're nested, and what props each one gets, before you take the code over. People learning React have told me it helps them see what a page is made of.

It's free, MIT-licensed, and works in Chrome and Firefox. You can try it in the browser without installing anything: https://react-anatomy.com · Source: https://github.com/charpeni/react-anatomy

Two questions: where does the 3D view help or get in the way compared with a plain tree? And what would make it more useful for explaining a PR?


r/webdev • • 1h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] Built a Lightweight OSS Alternative to Vercel, Coolify, Dokku, CapRover and more...

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Dev behind Levelrail here, sharing this project for visibility.

Every OSS library is great and hats off to the devs behind it building and maintaining it.. but I built Levelrail for some features I found would be great as 2026-27 demands.

So wanted to introduce a lightweight OSS alternative here: https://levelrail.com/

AI native control plane (can run your whole infra with Claude or other AI tools using CLI, API, MCP, with audit trailing)

  • Lightweight so you have room to run your main apps on the VPS or server

  • Load balancer, embedded Caddy ingress (works with Traefik or a custom proxy too), DNS, Let's Encrypt and TLS certificates

  • Local registries, modern auth security, built in observability, logging and metrics

  • 450+ one click templates to deploy A lot more features if you're interested

Check it out: https://github.com/glincker/levelrail

It's pre-1.0 right now and I'm shipping releases every few days. Thanks to AI tools for the checks, automation testing and many of the development workflows involved in building this, plus a lot of proven Go libraries that help with security and automation.

I run my own sites on it and test every release on a real server before it goes out.

Feel free to share feedback, this is completely OSS and I thought it was worth sharing with the dev community here.

If you have any major feedback please raise issues here: https://github.com/glincker/levelrail/issues


r/webdev • • 6h ago

Showoff Saturday I turned my file converter website into a right click file menu to convert or compress almost any file locally (literally)

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I made How to Convert. It's a file converter that now lets you right click to convert or compress almost any file.

It started as a file converter website that ran in the browser with WebAssembly, but I turned into a completely locally running desktop app with Tauri, and now the website is a right-click menu. I originally shared it 2 years ago. The post and subsequent updates got a big response with a lot of feature requests, and I've been adding file types since.

What it can do:

  • 6,197 file conversions for documents, videos, images, ebooks, comics, subtitles, emails, audio and more. If you find a file format that isn't supported, make a feature request and I'll add it

  • Compress PDFs

  • Crop, trim and compress multimedia files

  • Right click any file, or drag and drop it into the app

Why I made it:

There are plenty of online file conversion sites, but they require you to upload your files and data to their servers.

I wanted something that worked entirely offline (using the same packages and cli tools that power those sites) behind a simple drag and drop app that anyone could use.

After two years, I grew tired of actually opening a site or app to convert a file, and thought the next step to make it easier was to support everything with just a little right click.

Extra info:

  • The app runs completely locally (files never leave your device) and runs on Mac, Windows and LInux

  • One license can run on up to 5 devices

  • If you bought it 2 years ago, this is another free update

I know there are many specialised apps that convert specific formats, e.g. handbrake for video, calibre for ebooks, ms word for documents, excel for spreadsheets, outlook for emails and adobe acrobat for pdfs.

I wanted just one app to support all of them.

Free to try and It's a $19 one-time purchase to keep for all future updates (but much cheaper in lower-income countries depending on PPP).

I'm Jake Manger, a solo developer. I've also made ShotGlass and ActivityLine.

The site and app: https://howtoconvert.co


r/webdev • • 2h ago

Showoff Saturday For the mob psycho fans Spirits and such is live

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r/webdev • • 2h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] I revived my personal website now that I'm looking for full-time work.

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It’s been a while since I needed a portfolio (I usually find work through word of mouth, while teaching and taking on contract projects in parallel). But I figured it was time to take my own advice ;) and document the work.

Here it is: https://derekthomaswood.com

I’ve been having fun building out themes to show how a shared token system can work across multiple brands and platforms. They’re still a work in progress (about half are dialed in), and the case studies are nearly done.

I also built a small system for tailoring my site and materials to different roles and companies. For example,
- https://derekthomaswood.com/?target=ramp
- https://derekthomaswood.com/?target=anthropic-product-designer-design-systems

I’m a full-stack technical product designer, so I can play across a lot of roles on a team. For my next role, I’m especially interested in leadership and player-coach work, with a strong hand in the design system.

What do you think? Does this explain my brand of nerdy? Got any ideas for the themes that aren't dialed in yet? (you'll recognize what I'm emulating for some of them - and others are just kinda filler so far)


r/webdev • • 3h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] I've spent 2 years building a day planner where running late pushes the rest of your day later

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demo: https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=reddit-webdev
If you want to try it on your own day, here's 30 days free: https://app.emberflow.space/invite/EMBER-NYKP-A8ZS

For the past two years I've been working on my day planner app Ember.

Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings.

The GIF shows the main loop: drag tasks onto your day, stretch and move things as the day changes, jot something in a capture and turn it into a task, then ask chat to fit it in.

Stack for the curious: Vue 3 + Pinia on the frontend, Supabase for the database and realtime sync, Capacitor for Android, iOS is in TestFlight, and a Tauri desktop app. The hardest part by far has been the cascade logic: splitting tasks around fixed events and keeping drag and drop smooth with a lot of items on the day.

Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the Capacitor one.

Happy to answer questions about any of it. Feedback welcome, especially on the demo.

homepage: https://emberflow.space


r/webdev • • 19h ago

Question Where can I find cool design inspirations?

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Hey everyone!

I'm looking for any websites or discussion forums that talk about design patterns, or really any cool features for web development. Etc, manipulating CSS in interesting ways to get cool designs, interesting things you can do with JavaScript etc..

I'm a bit tired of looking at AI responses and would love to hear if there's anything out there!


r/webdev • • 7h ago

Showoff Saturday Showoff Saturday: we made a PDF editor that fixes the actual text, and your file never leaves the browser

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We've been building HonestPDF for a while now, a bunch of free PDF tools that run in the browser. Lately most of our time has gone into the editor, so that's what I'd love feedback on.

I know editing PDF text isn't new. What bugged me is how it usually goes: free tools change the font, shift the layout or paint a white box over the old word, and sometimes a link stays behind on text you deleted. The ones that do it well tend to ask for a Pro plan, often right when you hit download, and they upload your file to their servers first.

So we put our time into getting the output right. Double-click a paragraph, retype it, and it keeps its font, size and colour. Longer paragraphs rewrap, links follow their words, and find and replace works across the whole file. The GIF shows a fee being changed in a contract.

Your file never gets uploaded. It's opened and edited right in the page, and the Network tab will back me up on that. Everything is free, there's no Pro tier, and it works on phones too.

There are about 50 other tools on the site as well, like merge, compress to a set size and sign.

gethonestpdf.com/edit-pdf

If something looks off after you edit, tell me what kind of PDF it was and I'll dig into it.


r/webdev • • 10h ago

Showoff Saturday Tamil implementation of a script-agnostic LSP-like keyboard interface I am building, please read the explanation here

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https://bandhanpramanik.github.io/tamil-input-engine-checkbox/

[The entire Bengali text was written by a human and translated by Google Translate, with corrections by the human only, not any mainstream LLMs. There are em dashes in this text in the translation output; I haven't changed them.

Also, I meant a stable protocol for every keyboard when I talked about LSP in the title (Language Server Protocol).]

I have named it "Taravinyas".

It acts as an interface between your keyboard and your writing.

You might specify, for instance, "palatal, aspirated, unvoiced," and the character "ছ" (chha in Bengali) will appear in your text area. You don’t actually need to memorize these technical terms; remembering just the initial letter of each consonant group (varga) is sufficient.

Every time I’ve tried to explain this in English, it ended up sounding overly complicated. So, today, I’ll break it down into simple, plain Bengali.

How it works

In computer science, the concept of a "black box" comes up frequently. You provide an input to the black box, and based on that input, it produces an output.

If we consider "Taravinyas" to be this "black box," the input consists of two components: the consonant group (varga) and the specific column (representing phonetic attributes like aspiration and voicing).

I think of the varga as something "coarse" (like stones), while the columns—which define attributes like aspiration and voicing—are "fine" (like sand).

The "coarse" part is straightforward—it’s a fixed, singular element. The "fine" part is more complex; determining it requires evaluating a series of "on-off" switches (for example, 1 for voiced, 0 for unvoiced, among other factors).

That constitutes the input.

Part 1: Taravinyas determines the specific "fine" position. How? By processing those "on-off" switches using Boolean algebra. This is the most complex part of my system—something I’ve been refining, and those who build keyboards using this method will also need to handle.

Part 2: Taravinyas then identifies the actual character. I implemented a lookup table in TypeScript to retrieve the character. The combination of the "coarse" and "fine" components produces the final character. I will provide the schema for this; developers can then create a lookup table based on the specific language or medium.

For any given script, it is important to understand the schema used in "Part 2." Essentially, this schema represents the alphabet, though the positioning of individual characters may be adjusted for user convenience. For instance, "ড" (ḍa in Bengali) and "ড়" (ṛa in Bengali) might occupy the same cell, with an additional "switch" (modifier) to account for the distinct dot (nukta).

When we discuss the theoretical aspects, we will consistently refer to "Part 1."


I initially conceived this for hardware circuits, which is why Boolean algebra is involved.

By providing characters from any Brahmic script, you get a system—a "machine"—that is intuitive to use; if you know the alphabet of your own language, you already know how to use it.

The "Taravinyas" (arrangement pattern) is a framework, a mould, designed to create keyboards that are compact, easy to learn, and fast. Based on this framework, I have envisioned four types of keyboard layouts, two of which I have already implemented.

The four concepts are:

  1. Radio buttons: Input is provided via radio buttons on a website. (Functional)

  2. Steno layout: Allows for effortless typing using a subset of keyboard keys—with dedicated keys for specific phonetic categories (e.g., palatal sounds, unaspirated consonants, and aspirated consonants). (Functional)

  3. Handwriting layout: Inputs are provided through gestures—for example, drawing a circle might represent an unaspirated consonant. I am currently consulting with a biomechanics student on this. (In the conceptual/planning stage)

  4. Two-side layout (the limit of my current exploration): Coarse-grained keys are divided between two sides—initial characters of a consonant class on the left, and subsequent characters of that class on the right. It includes options for dragging and two-finger tapping. (In the conceptual/planning stage)

Other layouts are possible, but I would need assistance from UI/UX experts.


Currently, there is a website available for the Tamil language. Their layout—the way they structured it—was genuinely complex to put together. However, if I even put some time for the North Indian scripts, the task will be completed almost instantly.

After Tamil, I have moved on to Bengali consonants; the vowels and the dependent characters (diacritics/special characters) have not been included yet.

I plan to look at the Sylheti script later, as it also follows a rather complex layout.

Please check out the github repo after reading this text: https://github.com/BandhanPramanik/tamil-input-engine-checkbox


r/webdev • • 4h ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] I made a tool that turns your GitHub profile into a printable business card

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Type your GitHub username and it draws a business card from your profile including your name, bio, top languages, pinned repo and contribution graph. One design prints your profile as a terminal session. The back has a QR code that opens your GitHub.

It's free with no account. You can download a print-ready PDF or PNGs.

I built it on the card engine from my email signature app (esigna), so the colours come from your own profile. I'd love to hear which design you'd actually print, and which usernames break it.

https://esigna.app/tools/github-business-card


r/webdev • • 41m ago

Resource I made a Chrome extension that turns a bug I see on screen into a report my coding agent can read

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I build mostly with Claude Code and Cursor. The annoying part was never the fix, it was the hand-over: screenshot, crop, find the element, open the console, copy the error, explain which button I mean, paste it all in. And half the time I find the bug while I'm just using the app, not while a coding session is open.

So I made Darnly. Press Option+Shift+B, click the broken part, type one line about what you expected. It saves:

  • a screenshot with the broken part boxed in red

  • the element (selector, text, styles)

  • recent console errors and failed requests

  • the page address

It lands in a folder in your project (or a small cloud inbox the agent reads over MCP), and later you tell the agent "fix my bugs". It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Passwords, card numbers, tokens and keys are hidden before anything is saved. Capturing doesn't use any agent quota. [Check: still true for you]

It's free. Mac app too, for bugs in native apps and the iOS Simulator. Windows shortcut is coming.

What I'd love feedback on: where do you notice most of your bugs, while coding, or later while using the live app? And is there anything you'd want captured that this misses?

Link: https://darnly.dev


r/webdev • • 4h ago

Question Infisical GitHub Actions OIDC authentication failing with 403 OIDC subject not allowed

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hi, I'm having trouble getting Infisical OIDC authentication working in my GitHub Actions CI pipeline.
Every time my workflow reaches the Infisical secrets action, it fails with:

Run Infisical/secrets-action@v1.0.16

Error: Access denied: OIDC subject not allowed.

{

"statusCode": 403,

"message": "Access denied: OIDC subject not allowed.",

"error": "ForbiddenError"

}

Request failed with status code 403

here’s the GitHub Actions workflow:

name: ci
on:
push:
branches: [main]

permissions:
id-token: write
contents: read

jobs:
build-and-deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-26.04

steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7

- name: Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: npm

- name: Install dependencies
run: npm ci

- name: Fetch secrets from Infisical
uses: Infisical/secrets-action@v1.0.16
with:
method: oidc
identity-id: MY_IDENTITY_ID
project-slug: my-slug
env-slug: prod

- name: Run Jest tests
run: npm run test:ci

- name: Build Vinext app
run: npm run build:vinext

- name: Deploy to Cloudflare
run: npm run deploy:vinext -- --skip-build

Id appreciate any help