Web Development

🤔 Why Frontend? A Personal Reflection on Craft, Creativity, and Caring About the Human on the Other Side Recently, during an interview, I was asked, “Why frontend?”, and surprisingly I had never really thought about this, until that moment: “Why frontend? What makes you frontend leaning?” The quick answer that came to mind was the

🪞 Introduction Most devs use Chrome DevTools every single day, but most of us only scratch the surface. We live in the Console + Elements tab loop, tossing in console.log()s, tweaking CSS, and refreshing pages like it’s 2010. But Chrome’s DevTools team has quietly added a ton of powerful features that can actually make debugging

Earlier today, I was in an interview for a frontend engineering role when the interviewer asked a seemingly simple question: “Can you explain the difference between a PUT and a PATCH request?” I froze… Despite having made hundreds, probably thousands of API calls throughout my career (although most of them using GET and POST), I

It’s one of those classic interview questions, and honestly, it’s a fun one too: what actually happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter? The answer isn’t just “the website loads.” Under the hood, there’s a whole series of steps, some happening in microseconds, that make the web work like magic. Let’s