18 posts tagged with "tutorial"

I removed flex from my button container, expecting them to stack vertically, but they're still sitting side-by-side! 🤨 I thought flex was what made them horizontal. My frontend mentor corrected my misunderstanding: buttons are inline-block by default, which means they naturally sit beside each other. This conversation taught me the crucial difference between "happens to be side-by-side" and "controlled side-by-side layout."

I'm a backend developer learning frontend, and I just noticed something weird in Firefox Inspector. I removed p-8 from my div, and the height changed from 124px to 60px—but the width stayed at 384px! 🤔 My frontend mentor explained the CSS Box Model and why w-96 behaves differently from h-auto. This conversation finally made the box model click for me.

I'm learning frontend after years of backend work, and I just discovered something fundamental that nobody explains clearly: the display property. I added block to my label, and suddenly my form inputs stacked vertically instead of sitting side-by-side. I had no idea what I just did. 🤯 My frontend mentor explained how block, inline, and inline-block are the foundation that flexbox and grid are built on. This conversation changed everything.

I'm a backend developer building my first login form, and I couldn't figure out why my password field wasn't spacing away from the email field. Both fields were squished together even though I had space-y-4 on the form! 😤 My frontend mentor showed me a critical structural mistake: I put both fields in the SAME div. This conversation taught me why form structure matters just as much as styling.

I'm a backend developer learning frontend, and I just spent 2 hours debugging why my centered login form moved to the left when I "simplified" my code. The CSS felt like black magic. 🎩✨ My frontend mentor showed me why two divs are NOT just redundant nesting—they're a fundamental pattern in CSS positioning. Let me share this conversation that changed how I think about layout.

I used to think Java Streams were confusing magic. I avoided them for months, writing nested for loops like it was 2005. Then I saw a senior developer calculate cart totals in ONE line of code that took me 15 lines. I felt like a caveman discovering fire. 🔥 Let me teach you the 5 patterns that cover 90% of real-world Stream usage—no PhD required.

Three ways to integrate changes in Git. Each creates a different history. Here's when to use which.

Ever wished you could go back to your first commit, add that test class you forgot, and have it magically appear in all subsequent commits? With Git's interactive rebase, you can! Let's explore how Git actually stores history and how to safely rewrite it.