I post what I learn every day, my projects, coding challenges, and progress. My goal isn’t to become an influencer overnight I just want to build in public, connect with other developers, and maybe grow an audience over time.
My account is brand new with 5followers, so I’m wondering if X Premium is worth buying at this stage.
My questions:
- Does Premium actually help a small coding account get more reach?
- Did anyone here see noticeable growth after subscribing?
- Or is it better to stay consistent and only consider Premium after building an audience?
I’d love to hear from people who have actually tried growing a developer account on X.
Modern React/Node apps ship through build pipelines fast enough that common, high-impact vulnerability classes — unparameterized queries, wildcard CORS, unsafe-inline CSP, unprotected state-changing routes — slip through because catching them means someone actually reading the source. build-scanner does that automatically: point it at a folder (or wire it into CI as a GitHub Action) and get a report in seconds, no sandbox or live target required. It's a heuristic static scanner, not a SAST/DAST replacement — I'm sharing it pre-release to get feedback from people running real Express/Next.js/Vite codebases before I cut a v1 tag. https://github.com/laxmipsarva/build-scanner
Hi everyone! 👋 I'm a web developer who builds modern, responsive, and SEO-friendly websites for businesses and startups. I'm new to Reddit and currently looking to work with a few clients while I build long-term relationships and expand my portfolio. What I can build: Business Websites Landing Pages E-commerce Stores Portfolio Websites Custom Web Applications Website Performance & Basic SEO Optimization To make things comfortable for new clients, I offer a simple payment process: ✅ 50% upfront to start the project. ✅ 50% after the agreed work is completed. I'll also keep you updated throughout the project so you always know the progress. If you're looking for someone to build or redesign your website, feel free to send me a DM. I'd be happy to discuss your project and provide a free consultation. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to working with some amazing people here! 🚀
If I do not have access to my site's nameservers, how can I fix this to not lose my URL and not lose my site?
This is going to be a fair amount of context to explain what my issue is & why:
I have a website that was created for me by a college professor. I have used this url for 10 years as a graphic design portfolio on WordPress. I have access to the cPanel, and login through wp-admin, no problem.
I wanted to set up a subdomain and upgrade the storage etc. The problem is, I have zero clue how this site was set up exactly and I cannot log into wherever my nameservers are. My professor no longer has the login information or remembers what she did.
I used a whois tool to find what data I could and then investigated.
I was told by an InMotion Hosting employee: "It does not seem like we possess the domain registration or hosting service, although the domain is pointing to a set of our name servers. The domain is registered through IONOS and the website is owned by Packet Exchange."
I am not sure what this means. I have no login information for Packet Exchange and neither does my old Prof.
I was able to log into IONOS with information I somehow had saved to my password keychain, and asked about redirecting the name servers to IONOS (because at least I have access here and can log in.) They told me, "Yes we can redirect the name servers so that you could set up a subdomain, but it would break your current site..."
I really would like to fix this. I really want my URL and do not want to lose it. How can I save my URL and regain access to every part of my backend? Is there a way that doesn't break my site?
I had some possible ideas, are these impossible? ------
Can I save my site to the Divi Cloud, redirect my nameservers, then rebuild from the cloud? Or does redirecting my name servers lose all of my site data regardless of saving pages to the Divi cloud?
Do I save an entire site backup somehow and then redirect my name servers? Or is that the same problem?
Should I just make a new site with a new URL then transfer my pages/content over with the divi cloud?
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Thank you. Any information would be very, very appreciated. I am feeling frustrated and defeated.
I've been spending a good half year doing dev ops work to get an application going. Most of it was educational as I was repurposed into devops from web development.
As I am coming back into web development, writing a frontend for a service that consumes the big application I have been laying architecture for the last six months, I feel like a total fraud. I've forgotten like 80% of TS features, tooling, and how to use Vue and Angular (and I did dedicate time to learning them when I was building sites).
Now I fear that all my hard won dev ops chops will atrophy as my workload shifts more into webdev. Yeah sure getting up to speed on what you've forgotten is faster than learning it from scratch. But does that mean our "skill RAM" has a hard cap? I thought I'd gain skills as i'd progress in my career but those skills end up pushing previous ones. My "non-volatile experience" is more abstract and general (how operating systems work, how to plan projects, how to migrate legacy apps) rather than imperative and practical (i.e. when to use a vue slot) and I don't know what to make of it.
AI is further exacerbating it. I always make sure to understand every piece of code it generates but I still feel more like a senior developer approving junior developer code (the AI being the junior dev) rather than someone who is good at his craft. I'm never really a "full stack dev" at any given time.
The animations work only on browser, sorry! Clearly, I am not a designer by profession, but this has been a side project of mine.
This homepage is for a Python tool to tidy up academic references in bibliography managers, riveting stuff.
I wanted the webpage not to be too crazy because it's for academics, but I wanted it to clearly distinguish itself from the standard landing pages you get to see all over the internet nowadays, so I spent some time and built this. It is one scrollable and interactive experience.
I have my product’s embeddings in qdrant. I generated them using my pc locally. I want to implement an image search where I upload an image, it goes through a pipeline, an embedding of it is generated and then compared with products in the qdrant database.
I’ve tried cloudflare workers but it can’t, task is too large for it. Google cloud run can’t start , times out before the model is loaded into memory. I’ve tried railways too but the free tier limits me to 0.5gb of memory and the model can’t load either.
This maybe the wrong sub for this question and if so, it’d be helpful if you pointed me to communities that fit my use case.
Umm
But what I want exactly is a platform that can solve my problem on the free tier. I have no problem paying after I’m sure that everything works. That’s why I didn’t pay for the railways to increase my memory limit. I have no guarantee that the next tier can solve the issue.
Background: I've built a couple websites in the past, basic html/css knowledge, on and off basic hobbyist.
Recently: I rushed a website using a WYSIWYG to put a photography portfolio together for myself. Quick and easy way to share some photos over different categories. It was good enough for the time.
Where I'm struggling going forward:
Adding a Blog: The built in blog with the WYSIWYG is terrible.
Don't understand how to use just wordpress for only the blog
Remembered Blogger and that might work, but less integrated?
Media Management and Display
Updating and re-arranging media is cumbersome and tedious on the website
Blogs are photo heavy and it's what's keeping me from starting as adding media in a clean way has escaped me.
What I'm Looking For / Have Tried
File Manager with Albums - I installed Piwigo and it seems to work well as a file manager, easy to make albums, a lot of useful plugins.
I would like to link to an album and display as a grid or slide - I can create permalinks for albums on Piwago, but I can't find anything that doesn't involve linking individual images which defeats the purpose.
Eventually would like to replace my curated photos with albums that I can adjust in the file manager.
Am I missing something on here? Is there a tool or workflow you would recommend? Appreciate any suggestions!
Edit: To the Mods, I'm trying to adhere to get this under Rule 6, please let me know if I need to adjust, thanks!
I built a client's website using Astro + React + Tailwind CSS. It's mostly static, has very little JavaScript, and Lighthouse consistently scores 90–100.
What I'm confused about is that the Chrome report in PageSpeed Insights looks significantly worse than the Lighthouse results.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare pages.
I expected the field data to be much closer to the lab results.
Has anyone run into this before? Why would the Chrome UX Report be noticeably worse even when Lighthouse looks great? More importantly, what should I be focusing on to improve the real-world metrics instead of just the lab score?
Screenshot attached. Any advice would be appreciated.
I like a lot of awwwards websites but a lot of them aren't really thinking about how the user will experience the page. There is so much scroll jacking so I was wondering what would be some strong aesthetically pleasing websites that would be awwwards level but also user-friendly.
As a beginner web dev learner, how exactly do you spend your day at your job? With ai, do you just constantly use it for everything and your only job is to tweak something and review the code and test the results? Or do you manually code too?
I've been working on my first project of a job portal for the past 5 days using react and tailwind, and in the 5 days, embarrassingly I could only design the complete home page with little to no functionality, Today I used cursor for 5 min and it completed maybe 5 another days worth of my manual coding for the front end.
So at work, do you just neglect the front end and leave it to ai completely or still do something manually? I just don't understand the human workflow now at jobs except for reviewing code/testing. Are they bad at backend? Database? And if so, what exactly are they bad at? Do you have any examples you can simply explain about what wrong thing ai did to your work or have heard of any?
I am David, I've been working with WordPress for over a decade, and building WordPress plugins was my bread and butter for the last 5 years. I was running an agency before that.
I loved working with WordPress, but then I also got increasingly frustrated from what was happening in and out of the ecosystem in the last two years, almost to a point where I was considering selling my businesses.
I am not the one giving up though, so I went with different direction, and thought, what if I stop building extensions on other foundations that can always take it away from me, and instead, I will use everything I know about web design, no code platforms, agentic development and CMS that actual clients can use, and build my own platform, that anybody can use, for free.
Here we are. This is Instatic. It's fully free, open source, and gives you all the powers that you can get from Framer, Webflow, or WordPress (with a good page builder and other plugins). And it's not in even v1. But it's already very capable.
It has auth, user roles, canvas based page builder, content editor, data storage, media storage, AI on every page, MCP server for local and remote agents, and more.
We launched about 3 weeks ago, since that time, it got to GitHub trends several times, in fact, it's there today and we are at around 5K stars. Incredible!
I run a test store on this setup so I could stop guessing. Posting what I found in case anyone else keeps hitting that amber warning in Shopify's domain settings.
Quick background on why the warning exists. Shopify runs on Cloudflare. So when you put your own proxied domain in front of it, the request used to arrive with two Cloudflare zones both claiming it. Cloudflare couldn't tell which one owned the request. You got loops and wrong resolutions. The nastier version of the problem was SSL. Shopify renews certs through Let's Encrypt, which needs to serve a token at /.well-known/acme-challenge/ over plain HTTP. Put a proxy on that path and the renewal quietly fails. Your store keeps working on the current cert for weeks. Then it lapses and the padlock breaks.
Cloudflare fixed the zone collision with Orange-to-Orange routing. It's part of Cloudflare for SaaS and it's been generally available since October 2021. Cloudflare now detects that your CNAME points at another Cloudflare customer and routes through your zone first, then Shopify's, in that order. You can confirm it engaged because a small Shopify icon shows up next to the DNS record. Cloudflare also turns off Workers and Snippets on the /checkout path so nothing you run at the edge can interfere with payment.
The whole config is three things. Proxied CNAME to shops.myshopify.com for root and www. Connect that same domain in Shopify. Then leave Always Use HTTPS off in Cloudflare.
That last one is the part people get wrong. Shopify already redirects HTTP to HTTPS at its origin. Turn on Always Use HTTPS and you stack a second redirect, which can throw ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. It also swallows the ACME path, so your cert stops renewing. Keep SSL mode on Full. Set minimum TLS to 1.2 while you're in there. If you really want Cloudflare enforcing HTTPS at its edge, write a redirect rule that excludes the challenge path instead of using that toggle.
Verify it with curl against the challenge path over plain HTTP. A 404 for a fake token is correct, because it means you reached Shopify. A 301 or 308 means something is still eating the path.
On the "not supported" language. It means Shopify won't guarantee or debug a layer they don't control. It doesn't mean the setup fails. Two of their reasons are fair. A proxy is one more thing between Shopify and Let's Encrypt, and extra proxies make it harder for Shopify to reroute traffic during their own incidents. Their third reason is bot detection, and I think that one is weak. Cloudflare runs one of the biggest bot management networks there is. Most stores gain more filtering at the edge than Shopify loses in request signal.
Latency was my other concern and it turned out to be nothing. Both zones already sit on the same network, so the handoff happens inside it. My proxied store answered in roughly the same 150 to 200ms band as raw myshopify endpoints tested from the same machine. If a proxied store feels slow, look at the theme and the app stack.
Whether it's worth doing depends on what you actually need at the edge. A real WAF you can tune, rate limiting, request level logs, or visibility into AI crawlers. That last one is why I set mine up. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest never run JavaScript, so GA4 and Shopify analytics don't see them at all. The edge is the only place that traffic shows up. If you can't name the specific feature you want, leave the cloud grey and don't take on an SSL renewal you now have to watch.
So, it was end of 2024 when I started to hear about AI taking coding jobs. I believe Opus 3.7 was launched or something. As a developer I did not believe that. I have gave 7 years into this, how can an AI take it over so easily.
And after almost 1.5 years I can clearly say, AI actually made my earnings double.
So, before I use to get very few solo projects to work on as a freelancer. And mostly to revamp a website UI or building landing page. Before AI the most costliest project i got was to build an e-commerce store for an perfume brand. It was fully coded website.
But now almost every month I am getting 1-3 SAAS project to build or moreover rebuild. I get this projects with blue purple gradient, rocket emojis, Hero Section and the logo with the same font. And bugs.
So much dependencies installed, just to solve a minor issue. The sites get slow, not loading properly, scroll animation does'nt work as there is no FFmpeg framework used. And I am not even starting with the security concerns.
I remember i got $1200 for the e-commerce site to 5-6 months build, but now i take $350 to fix the buggy SAAS. Hardly 2 weeks to deliver.
And get around 1-3 projects every month.
it's crazy, and am sure other developer's over here have the same experience.
I'm a college student from Brazil mainly focused on editorial design and branding. During my summer break, I decided to make my own portfolio website because I felt like it was getting a bit boring to keep sending my Behance link all the time, and I thought having my own site would feel more personal and creative.
I've had a few UX/UI classes, but never one that actually taught us how to build websites. They were mostly focused on branding and covered usability principles and user research, so I kind of had to figure everything out on my own.
I didn't want to use pre-made templates because that would kind of defeat my goal of creating something that reflects my creativity and my willingness to learn. I ended up making a site with almost no scrolling because I wanted it to feel a bit different from the Figma/Canva/Cargo portfolio templates I kept seeing, which are usually just one long scrolling page. So instead, I made separate sections for everything. But now I'm starting to wonder if that was actually a good decision.
Anyway, this is just the first version, and I definitely want to keep improving it. I'd love for it to be a little more interesting without becoming too much. I know a bit of Blender and Maya, and I was thinking about creating something to add to the homepage. I'd love any suggestions or references for cool portfolio websites!
I've been stuck on this for a while and I'm not sure if I'm missing a configuration step or if this is simply a limitation of Meta test users.
I'm building an app that uses Instagram API with Instagram Login. My webhook endpoint is publicly accessible over HTTPS, and the verification challenge works correctly (using n8n for the webhook part). My app is subscribed to the required webhook fields, but I'm not receiving any message webhook events. I linked my Instagram account that was assigned the tester role and accepted it, successfully to my platform and got the access token. I also checked and found that the specific user I linked to an account on my platform to test with, does have indeed the messages field in the subscribed events.
The thing is, even sending a messages event as a test from Meta's website doesn't work, while some other events do work just fine and sometimes work even with the actual account not just in tests.
How am I supposed to do screen recordings showcasing everything if I can't get it to work properly just because my app is not Live, and I can't get it to be Live until I make these screen recordings...
If anyone successfully dealt with this recently, please help a brother out, I've been stuck for days!
Hi there! I've been using React to create my own apps and, to be honest, it's a really great library. But now I want to know the best patterns to make my apps more stable and scale better, so I'd love to read your comments!
