Week 11 of building Convertify a free image converter (Rust + Axum + libvips, Next.js SSG frontend) in public. Solo, no funding, 52-week run.
Here's the honest headline: **indexing jumped from 100 to 143 pages, I shipped image compression in Rust, and my clicks are still stuck.
Python Operators
In the previous lesson, we learned about Input and Output operations in Python. Today, we will learn about Operators, which are used to perform operations on variables and values.
Operators are important in programming because they help perform calculations, comparisons, logical decisions, and data manipulation.
What are Opera...
Every time a major football tournament comes around, my friends and I set up a prediction pool. But every single year, the experience is the exact same frustration: legacy apps forcing everyone to fill out long signup forms, verify emails, dodge annoying ads, or deal with bloated interfaces that lag on a mobile browser.
I didn't want my friends to jump through hoops just to submit a f...
A few weeks ago I was studying backend development from first principles. Not frameworks, not tutorials that skip the hard parts — actual fundamentals. How does data get stored? How does a server talk to a client? What even is a database at its core?
That's when I came across Redis for the first time.
I was reading...
When Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chair and president, stood before cameras in December 2025 to announce his company's largest ever commitment to Canada, he did not simply unveil an infrastructure deal. He outlined a blueprint. The C$19 billion investment, spanning 2023 to 2027, with more than C$7.5 billion (approximately US$5.4 billion) earmarked for the next two years alone, was wrapped in th...
I recently finished building a multi-channel data pipeline to solve a specific problem: consolidating fragmented monthly sales data from an in-store till, Uber Eats, and Deliveroo into a single master source for Looker Studio.
The technical work took ...