doing the weird stuff, writing the nerdy stuff
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I just spent 3 hours crafting the perfect "What X taught me about B2B SaaS" post. The irony wasn't lost on me. Here's what I learned about B2B SaaS from the process itself: 1. Templates drive scalability 📈 Just like SaaS products, successful LinkedIn posts
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This is mayspace, a brand new site by Ryana Que that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!
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Starting my investment journey has been both exciting and a bit overwhelming. As someone new to stocks and coming from a technical background, my approach to picking companies was shaped by both curiosity and the need for reassurance from real financial data. I want to document the reasons behind my
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My portfolio used to run on Framer Motion. Every hover effect, every entrance animation, every subtle transition was powered by a 50kb JavaScript library. It worked fine, but I kept thinking about performance. I kept wondering if CSS could do the same thing faster, cleaner, without the overhead. Turns out
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Gravatar is a service that creates unique avatar images from the hash of an email address. Inspired by this idea, I set out to build something similar for my developer portfolio. Rather than generating faces or icons, I wanted to create abstract art to use as cover images for my
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CSS columns are a convenient way to create masonry-style layouts, and for many simple use cases, they work fine. However, when I used them to build the project grid on my portfolio, I noticed a pattern that didn’t feel quite right. The layout filled from top to bottom before
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I reverse engineered the public QR verification flow from eVerify and reconstructed it as a personal project with the goal of providing a free and open verifier for both eGovPH and PSA IDs without relying on third-party vendors like Sumsub. I focused on mapping the public behavior from the source
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As a developer building user-facing features with the IndexedDB API, I expected it to be stable enough for offline recording. That assumption cost a user four hours of work and dropped a bomb on me in the most unfavorable time, early morning (5am to be exact). What Happened? I want
Hi! It's Ryana. First up, Driftlet now has a website. Check out Driftlet.xyz for future updates and announcements. Bonus: We’ve also got a Docker image now. More details in the announcement here. Also, we still don’t have docs so don’t believe the website. You
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Hi! If you're new here, I'm Ryana. I've always wanted to start making a blog where I can just voice out whatever stuff is on my mind for a long time right now. I have been somewhat unsuccessful so far so here’s to
Hi, so I need a proper way to write documentations or updates for Driftlet and I just secured the Driftlet domain I wanted so I wanted to write a blog post about next steps for Driftlet but... I forgot my password, and considering Driftlet has no script or a forgot