Workshop
This section is for the trade. What I write here I learned while working, and mostly by getting it wrong first. If you came as a client, the Hungarian-language articles will be more useful.
Systems of my own
Systems I built with AI for my own life, and how they connect. On the map, every system carries the date it last changed.
- Systems of my own — the map: an e-reader's firmware, the lamp in my room, a music player, a subtitle translator and a time gate, with how they connect, dates and a bilingual glossary. 26 October 2026
- Mail scanners click the confirmation link first — a booking page of my own next to my site, without cookies: confirming behind a button, reminders, cancelling and moving. What the mail decided. 6 November 2026
- The firmware the AI tried to talk me out of — my own branch for a small e-reader on top of open-source CrossPoint, with a cloud bridge to Notion and Claude. What it does, and what broke the first time. 26 October 2026
On the job
- How the agents got into Hugging Face — the July 2026 incident, based on the company's technical timeline: two unknown flaws, a static password, one key valid everywhere, and what held. Five correspondences for a website. 25 September 2026
- I fingerprint every file after a deploy — how I know the server has what I uploaded: a per-file SHA-256 comparison, the permissions a fingerprint cannot see, WordPress's official checksums and the database blind spot. 25 September 2026
- Why does the first frame of the animation jump? — the movement code was correct, and padding still put a floor under the box, while the shorthand got no transition. 8 September 2026
- What do you have to build without WordPress? — with no database, no admin and no plugins, the search, the sharing images and the checks are all custom tools. How much code takes their place. 7 September 2026
- What an abandoned website reveals — seven signals from a site's surface and source that date when it was left. And what to check on your own site because of it. 30 July 2026
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Scroll-driven animation without JavaScript — and its trap —
animation-timelinereplaces the observer script, but doesn't account for one thing: going back. 30 July 2026 - The website no longer read by people — what a reader running no scripts sees, what structured data is worth, and one command that checks it. 30 July 2026
- A metric-matched fallback font — four CSS properties that make the font swap imperceptible, so the text doesn't jump on load. 30 July 2026
- What a template can do, and where it stops — a template is often the right choice. Where it speeds things up, where it slows them down, and why the last ten percent can cost more than the first ninety. 30 July 2026
- Taking over someone else's codebase — what to check first — the order of assessment, which doesn't start with the code, and the three cases where you say no. 30 July 2026
- Four WP-CLI deploy traps that fail silently — escaped URLs in page-builder data, permissions carried through an archive, a zero-byte database export and a collation clash. Four failures that produce no error. 30 July 2026
- Why there is no build step on this site — plain HTML, zero dependencies, zero external requests. What a site gains, what it loses, and where the limit is. 30 July 2026
- What should a machine check on a website? — a plain-HTML site has no framework to warn you. What a script looks at on my behalf, which real failure produced each of its sections, and why a noisy check is worse than a missing one. 30 July 2026
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Why noindex isn't the answer —
a page can be pulled out of the results, but the same move also hides
it from language models. What
data-nosnippetactually does, and what's left when neither tool is enough. 30 July 2026
The Hungarian side of this site has a second section, Írások, written for business owners rather than developers: e-mail authentication, invoicing, access management. The Workshop assumes the reader is building something too.