Web Dev Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/ Digital Product Development & Engineering in Europe & Hong Kong Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:52:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sharpi.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/fav2-1.png Web Dev Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/ 32 32 My Dev toolkit 2025 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/my-dev-toolkit-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2025 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:23:33 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2537 Writing this in march of 2026 notable shift at a rapid pace towards going fully AI. Platforms like V0 and Bolt fail to deliver cloud based SaaS for Coding, Gemini and Codex are king and queen. Working locally is most reliable, Vercel offers free hosting and simple deployments from Github. Figma to code is getting […]

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]]> It’s fast, but you probably shouldn’t use the default public schema in Supabase https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/its-fast-but-you-probably-shouldnt-use-the-default-public-schema-in-supabase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-fast-but-you-probably-shouldnt-use-the-default-public-schema-in-supabase Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:07:17 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2497 Supabase’s automatic API generation from your database schema makes web app development incredibly fast. Instantly, your tables are exposed over REST and GraphQL API, and you can start building rich features without thrashing out any backend code or configuration besides the tables themselves. But is it wise to launch a product with data sitting in […]

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]]> My Dev toolkit 2024 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/my-dev-toolkit-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2024 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 05:35:41 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2097 A review of what I ended up using regularly this year. This will get updated with why and links at some point. Graphic, UI Design and Video Davinci Resolve 18 Figma Low Code Webflow Relume.io CRM WordPress Video Online tools and Multimedia I love PDF remove.bg Unsplash Freepik Pexels Convert.io Perplexity.ai Code GitHub NextJS V0 […]

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]]> Point of Sail widget with V0 https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/point-of-sail-widget-with-v0/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=point-of-sail-widget-with-v0 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:53:53 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2364 This one took around 5 hours working from a few JPG designs and a Figma mockup. V0 started to break down around 500 LOC again so I couldn’t get all the animation, interactivity, responsiveness I wanted. I  ended up forking many times after going too far down hallucinatory routes that couldn’t be undone really reaching […]

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]]> Experimenting with bolt.new and Supabase https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/experimenting-with-bolt-new-and-supabase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=experimenting-with-bolt-new-and-supabase Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:33:17 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2310 I saw a feature in the Supabase newsletter recently with a youtube video using Bolt.new with Supabase to do simple crud operations and thought I’d give it a try. First off I tried to generate my idea with V0, despite having played extensively with V0 a few months ago and having some illogical loyalty, there […]

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]]> Migrating WordPress from DigitalOcean Plesk to Hostinger and Cloudflare https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/migrating-wordpress-from-digital-ocean-plesk-to-hostinger-and-cloudflare/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=migrating-wordpress-from-digital-ocean-plesk-to-hostinger-and-cloudflare Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:57:24 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2292 Migrating WordPress sites from a Plesk VPS hosted on DigitalOcean over to Hostinger WordPress hosting is easy. Steps This process took less than 10 minutes and involved no headache. 1. Install new site on Hostinger I tried to follow as little of the wizard and avoided using migration because this asks for files or admin […]

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]]> V0, Building Fonstack designer UI in a day (or trying) https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/v0-building-fonstack-builder-ui-in-a-day-or-trying/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=v0-building-fonstack-builder-ui-in-a-day-or-trying Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:06:02 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2127 Part 3, reviving fonstack.io an old concept I never made progress with because coding the UI was too daunting. Objectives for the day ✅ Design the entire app in Figma with a Prototype ✅ Get the “Font Tryout Designer” UI imitation browser coded up in V0 ✅ Supabase project set up ✅ Set up new […]

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]]> Supabase Local Setup $ supabase link and how to find Reference ID https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/supabase-local-setup-supabase-link-and-how-to-find-reference-id/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supabase-local-setup-supabase-link-and-how-to-find-reference-id Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:20:43 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2024 Problem I was trying to use $ db dump with the supabase-cli after setting up Supabase local development environment, but was unable to connect to the remote database. I hadn’t configured something correctly during setup. This issue about failed SASL auth (invalid SCRAM server-final-message received from server lead me down the rabbit hole. Firstly, the ‘link’ […]

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]]> Is Github Co-pilot worth the money? IMO spend elswhere. https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/github-co-pilot-is-it-worth-the-money-imo-no/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=github-co-pilot-is-it-worth-the-money-imo-no Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:53:27 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2017 TLDR: you might as well pay for a GPT-4 subscription instead and copy and paste stuff to your browser, you’ll spend time doing that in VS code anyway which negates the added convenience and you’ll probably get better results. Why look at this? After a couple of week of using copilot (and paying my first […]

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]]> Easily migrate large WordPress sites for free in 2024 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/easily-migrate-large-wordpress-sites-for-free-in-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=easily-migrate-large-wordpress-sites-for-free-in-2024 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:42:53 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1995 TLDR: Use WPVidid backup, and your file system UI or SSH or FTP to transfer the export. Problem I wanted to move my WordPress sites off of Unlimited Web hosting and onto a DO droplet. Why? because shared hosting sucks. I was getting a D pingdom Performance grade with many lagging or failing https requests with […]

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