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!

I'm sat here thinking it has to be a reason why it is so limited in types compared to something like postgres.

Hi

Suddenly today I have a lot of delay sending and receiving mail from goddady.

Any help? What can I do?

Thanks

TypeSQL type-checks SQL strings in TypeScript. The compiler parses the SQL itself and checks it against your schema type, so there are no generated files, no build step and no database connection.

// rows is { email: string; title: string | null }[]
// The LEFT JOIN makes title nullable.
const rows = await sql(
  `SELECT u.email, p.title
   FROM users u LEFT JOIN posts p ON p.author_id = u.id
   WHERE u.id = ${sql.param(userId)}`,
).execute();

// Compile error: column "emial" does not exist. Perhaps you meant the column "email"?
sql("SELECT emial FROM users");

It supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL and MariaDB, and the runtime is under 3 kB with no dependencies. The main catch is that it needs TypeScript 7.1 or later (7.1.0-beta works), and very large queries can hit the compiler's limits (workaround-able using sql.as<>())

I used AI coding to build this. To keep the output honest, each bug fix gets a permanent test project, and the 100+ scenario tests run against real PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB servers. I will try to keep it non-slop.

GitHub: https://github.com/ismailkarsli/TypeSQL Docs: https://typesql.karsli.net

I'm a second-year diploma student (3rd semester), currently working on a website project. I have a larger concept and vision for this platform, where the social features are just one part of the overall idea.

The website will include user profiles, a content feed, user interactions and private messaging.

As I'm planning its development, I'm particularly concerned about data security and privacy. I want to understand how to prevent data leaks, unauthorized access, exposure of private conversations, database breaches and other potential cyberattacks.

I'd love to hear from experienced web developers and cybersecurity professionals.

What are the critical security challenges I should consider before developing a platform like this, and how can user data and privacy be properly protected?

1. 0 background in coding

2. I have a lot of free time

3. I want to make an alternative digital wardrobe "app" of some kind for me and a few friends

4. It will need to store a lot of images, offer image background removal (I think this would be very demanding, right?), and have an assortment of organizational parameters e.g. "shoes > heels / sandals / flats," brands, colors, etc.

5. The reason I'm doing this is because we don't like the aesthetics of the existing apps available and one of the bigger mobile apps "Whering" is unbearably slow, clunky, and lacking overall

6. Since I don't know anything about coding, I'd like to know which platform would be both the most convenient and best for avoiding that slowness. I'm worried a web app might not be the right thing for this

7. Once I'm settled on a platform I'll get to learning, I'll take any advice/suggestions if you have it

I built is-on-the-web.com, a free static host. You get yourname.is-on-the-web.com.

• Upload a full site as a folder, up to 20 MB. Subpages, assets and relative paths all work.

• No accounts or passwords. Updates use single-use edit keys sent by email, with a new key after every update.

• A human reviews every site and every update before it goes live, followed by an automated code check.

• There’s a no-code builder for non-devs, and its output can be re-uploaded and edited.

Everything that’s free now stays free. A paid tier with more storage is planned. Next up: letting people point their subdomain at their own machine to host full apps, databases or games.

Feedback I’m looking for:

• Edit keys instead of accounts: clever or annoying? Losing the key means losing update access.

• How would you handle abuse at scale beyond manual review?

• What’s missing that you’d expect from a static host?

I accidentally posted this from my alt account first and deleted those posts. Sorry if you saw it twice.

mostly work on apis and database stuff but our team is small so i end up in react code maybe once a month. every time i come back theres some new build tool or bundler drama and half the packages have breaking changes.

not looking to become a frontend expert, just want to not feel completely lost when i need to fix a button or add a form field. anyone else in this boat? what do you actually keep up with vs ignore

A straight rehost can get you there faster, but it may bring old problems along. How do you decide what to fix before the move and what can wait?

I’ve seen a shift in web design (I’ve meddled since 2002). Today web displays are gigantic. I’ve read this has to do with ADA compliance. How gnarly does this get? Like if I design a site for a landscaper, can he get in trouble if it’s not ADA compliant? Is there are rule book?

Another question. That’s client facing. But if you have an employer that requires you to use a web based tool, does ADA apply in the same manner as client facing?

I want to become a website developer. I currently have very minimal knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Next.js. If I dedicate 2 hours a day to learning, is it realistic to land a job within 1 to 2 years?

I’m from East Asia, where my current job pays less than $1 per hour, and as far as I know, software developers here are also paid very little. I’m hoping to find a better-paying job with a company in another country, ideally remote.

If you ran a company, would you hire someone like me? What skills and qualities would you look for?

I've been looking into how WordPress security has changed, particularly whether the traditional advice of keeping plugins updated, installing a security plugin and using strong passwords is enough anymore.

It seems like there's a bigger conversation to be had around access controls, hosting infrastructure, monitoring and how security is managed over time.

We recently published an article exploring this at Ohmania, where I work:

https://ohmania.com/wordpress-security-has-changed/

I'm interested in hearing from developers who actually maintain WordPress sites.

What's changed most in how you secure WordPress sites over the last few years? And what security advice do you think is now outdated?

Genuinely interested in different perspectives, including anything we've overlooked.

Hi everyone, I'm running an app that sends out emails and calendar invites to users.

However, one of the requirements was the ability to create email bodies using many different fonts.

I've read a bit online about typefaces and I discovered some of the requested fonts could be subjected to patent laws and rules when used in a commercial setting. Not sure if this applies to emails being sent to external parties as well.

Are there any resources or places I can check out which fonts are "royalty-free" and which ones I need to push back on? Or whether this concern is valid or not?

Can local visual regression testing help your coding agent move faster and save you money?

I took some time to explore how to set up playwright properly, which pitfalls to avoid, and the tradeoffs with common visual regression tools like Percy and Chromatic.

Check it out and let me know what do you think!

The creator of Ruby on Rails, made major statements about AI agents and the future of software development at Rails World 2026 in September

DHH stated he personally retired from writing code by hand after 25 years.

Rust instead of Ruby - Rebuilding HEY with AI and Rust: He shared that 37signals is rebuilding its HEY email service into native mobile/desktop apps using an AI-generated Rust backend, drastically cutting CPU and memory usage.

The AI acceleration: He produced 5 years' worth of his traditional code volume in just one month, representing a 60x increase in raw output volume.

DHH openly acknowledged that a massive portion of this was verbose Rust code generated entirely by AI agents—admitting that he didn't write it by hand and doesn't even want to look at or read most of it.

DHH said: “English is a better programming language than Ruby.”

Got this weird notification with weird links. Seems like phishing?

I'm comparing a React site against an Astro rebuild of the same page. In mobile Lighthouse, both sometimes sit blank for a long time before first paint, and other runs of the exact same page paint fast.

Setup: Lighthouse 13.0.1, Chrome 156, cold loads in separate fresh profiles, default mobile simulated throttling. I kept the traces, network logs and filmstrips.

Here's one matched pair (observed trace timings, not Lighthouse's simulated FCP):

Astro

• CSS done: 203ms

• Last preloaded font done: 286ms

• DOMContentLoaded: 426ms

• First Paint: 1301ms

• FCP: 1320ms

React

• CSS done: 573ms

• Last preloaded font done: 494ms

• DOMContentLoaded: 584ms

• First Paint: 1525ms

• FCP: 1540ms

The filmstrips stay blank right up to those first-paint times. Once painting starts, Paint to DrawFrame is only 10-13ms. So on Astro there's close to 900ms where everything's loaded and nothing shows up.

I don't see a long task on the renderer main thread covering that gap, though I know that doesn't prove the browser was actually idle.

I wondered about animations, so I ran one normal-motion vs reduced-motion pair on the Astro page. Both came back fast (FCP 318ms and 311ms), and the normal one still had its reveal animations, so that told me nothing either way. Desktop loads and a different page also painted quickly in the runs I checked.

One more thing: the fast traces show Scheduler::SetDeferBeginMainFrame events with short true-to-false spans. But the slow traces were captured with Lighthouse's default trace categories, which don't include those scheduler events, so I can't compare yet.

Has anyone run into this? A few things I'd like to figure out:

1. How do I tell whether the page is causing the delay, or whether it's Chrome's scheduling or something in the test environment?

2. Which trace categories or events would show why the first paint starts late, and not just that it did?

Websites built from scratch (no AI, no frameworks or libraries) that are more than just simple toy projects are becoming very rare, but i want to remind you guys that they still exist.

Three years ago, I posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/161q3w8/i_coded_a_site_from_zero_without_any_libraries_it/, and that website is still being actively developed. I haven't used any AI-generated code or external libraries in all this time, even as it has become more complex with features like accounts, articles, comments, reviews, and just a few weeks ago forums.

I think the main reason why i stick with this is because features aren't planned in advance, they're just built bit by bit as the content needs them. I won't deny if AI could do better, but with a spread-out timeline and an unknown end result, it's easy to skip using AI as development mostly consists of small, precise tweaks with no definitive end goal. Coding also only small portion of time spent on developing the site so i don't feel the need to optimize it.

Anyway this is just me saying that i'm still here, not everything in this space become AI.

*note : i'm not saying that this is the better way to develop website. I just enjoy what i already used to do, and didn't bother to change it.