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Introducing TaxUI: A Modern Declarative HTML & CSS Framework with Zero JavaScript

Hey fellow developers! 👋 Like many of you, I've spent countless hours configuring build tools, writing endless strings of utility classes, or importing heavy JavaScript bundles just to achieve basic application layouts, responsive grids, modals, and dark mode. I wanted something different: a framework where writing HTML feels clean, intuitive, and semantic again, without sacrificing modern design standards or adding runtime overhead. That is why I created TaxUI. 💡 What is TaxUI? Instead of wri

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urning emailed spreadsheets into Magento orders without asking customers to change

Every B2B Magento store I've worked on has the same quiet leak. A chunk of the orders never touch the storefront. They arrive as an .xlsx exported from the buyer's purchasing system, a PDF purchase order, or a photo of a list someone wrote by hand. A person on the seller's side opens the admin, clicks Create New Order, and retypes it. Nobody logs this as a problem because nothing is broken. The order gets placed. It just costs a few minutes of a salesperson's day, every day, and it never shows u

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I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.

I wrote this article twice. The first version was finished, proofread, and queued to publish. Then someone asked a question about one number in it, and the thesis came apart. I am publishing the second version, along with the part where I was wrong, because the mistake turned out to be more useful than the article I meant to write. Pay-per-event pricing asks you to name a price per unit of value. I had priced eleven Actors that way without knowing what a unit costs me to produce. So I measured.

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Scrolling to an Index in a Flutter Lazy List, Without Building Everything Above It

You have a list of a million rows and you want to jump to row 842,013. ScrollController.jumpTo takes a pixel offset, not an index. To convert one Flutter ships no answer. The two packages that did are both dead: scrollable_positioned_list — archived by Google scroll_to_index — last published in 2022 Between them they still serve over a million downloads a month, which tells you scrollable_positioned_list built a second complete list, anchored at the It works. It is also why jumping felt the way

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10 Developer Tools That Can Save You Time Every Day

As developers, a surprising amount of time is spent on small tasks. Formatting JSON, encoding Base64, generating hashes, decoding JWTs, testing regular expressions, converting timestamps — none of these tasks are particularly difficult, but they can interrupt your workflow. Instead of repeatedly searching for a different website for every small task, I wanted to bring these everyday utilities together in one place. That’s how MazdaDev came to life. 🛠️ What is MazdaDev? MazdaDev is a developer-f

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Talking to Native: FFI, Pigeon, and Knowing Which One You Need

A MethodChannel typo cost us three days and a hotfix release, and the compiler never said a word. That's the whole story of Flutter native interop in one sentence: the easy path is a stringly-typed message bus that fails silently in the field, and almost everyone reaches for it first. Every Flutter developer's first brush with native code goes the same way. You need something the framework doesn't give you — a battery level, a hardware sensor, a C library your backend team already trusts — and t

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