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21 Oct 2025 ( last mo. )
Frontend Development
Make Time Feel Human: Using Relative Time in JavaScript
Have you ever noticed how apps like Instagram or YouTube show “5 minutes ago” instead of a full date like 2025-10-21T10:30:00Z? That’s called relative time — and it makes your app feel more natural and user-friendly. Instead of reading a boring timestamp, people instantly know how long ago something happened. Luckily, JavaScript has a built-in way to do this easily: Intl.RelativeTimeFormat
20 Jul 2025 ( 4 mo. ago )
Backend Development
Setting Up Environment Variables in Node.js (No dotenv, No nodemon)
Managing environment variables and hot-reloading has always been a bit messy in Node.js. We had to install third-party tools like dotenv to read .env files and nodemon to restart the server on changes.
