Engineering notes, product thinking, and lessons from the freelance trenches.
Why I Built a Simple Invoicing Tool for Freelancers
After 14 years of freelancing and trying every invoicing app out there, I built my own. Professional PDFs, client management, audit trail, and no bloat.
Manoj Kumar
We Built CartRecovr: An Abandoned Cart Recovery Plugin for WooCommerce
CartRecovr captures abandoned WooCommerce carts and sends automated recovery emails with one-click cart restore. Free on...
Building DevToolbox: 7 Browser-Based Developer Utilities That Never Touch a Server
I built a free collection of developer tools — JSON formatter, JWT decoder, regex tester, and more — that run entirely...
Building a Zero-Knowledge Password Strength Checker
I built a password tool that never sees your password. Here is how client-side entropy calculation, k-anonymity breach checks,...
Why I Chose Flat-File Over WordPress for This Blog
After years of building WordPress sites for clients, I went the opposite direction for my own blog. Here is the reasoning, the...