Practical notes and questions about building websites, applications, APIs, databases, and CMS platforms.
A small PHP application can call a remote API in only a few lines. The harder question begins when the other system is slow, unreachable, or silent after receiving the request. How long should the application wait? Should it try again? If the first request ti…
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A single external The page delegates more than file delivery. JavaScript loaded this way runs in the page's context. The OWASP Third Part…
A PHP page fails halfway through a request. What should the visitor receive, and what should the operator keep? Those are related questions…
A form accepts a name correctly, PHP prints it correctly in a debug message, and MariaDB stores something that still looks plausible. Later…
An application release can be rolled back by checking out an earlier commit. A database is less cooperative: it contains state accumulated …
A webhook endpoint can look almost trivial: accept an HTTP POST, decode some JSON, update a record, and return 200. The difficult question …
A small web application can execute two database statements successfully hundreds of times and still have a serious design gap. What happen…
A personal website can feel fast on a second visit for a simple reason: the browser may already have some of its files. But the same mechan…
A website can have an English page, an Indonesian translation, and a German translation, yet still leave an important question unanswered: …
Have you ever shared a carefully written article in a chat, only to see it arrive as a lonely blue URL or with an unrelated image? The page…
