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Finding Your Ikigai: The Art of Living with Purpose and Balance

Finding Your Ikigai: The Art of Living with Purpose and Balance

In today’s fast-paced, hyper-connected world, many people feel like they are running endlessly but not necessarily moving forward. The Japanese concept of Ikigai offers a refreshing perspective — a way to discover a deeper sense of meaning in life. Ikigai roughly translates to “reason for being,” and it represents the

LMArena: The Global Battleground for AI Language Models

LMArena: The Global Battleground for AI Language Models

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, measuring the true performance of a Large Language Model (LLM) has become as important as building it. Amidst this race, LMArena — formerly known as Chatbot Arena — has emerged as one of the most influential and talked-about platforms for LLM benchmarking through human

Laravel Tip: Fetching a Single Column Value the Efficient Way

Laravel Tip: Fetching a Single Column Value the Efficient Way

When working with Laravel’s Eloquent ORM, there are times when you only need to retrieve a single value from the database. A common mistake developers make is fetching the entire model instance when they only need one field. Let’s break it down with an example. The Efficient Way

Jotai Vanilla via CDN: Multi-Atom, Derived State, Actions, and Persistence

Jotai Vanilla via CDN: Multi-Atom, Derived State, Actions, and Persistence

Below is a multi-atom Jotai Vanilla example (via CDN) that demonstrates: separate atoms for multiple concerns, derived atoms (computed values), write-only atoms (actions), and simple persistence with localStorage. It remains framework-agnostic and runs in a single HTML file.

Mastering Jotai Vanilla via CDN: A Lightweight State Management for Any Web Project

Mastering Jotai Vanilla via CDN: A Lightweight State Management for Any Web Project

When people talk about state management, they usually mention big frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. But what if you want reactive state without committing to a full framework? Enter Jotai Vanilla — a minimal, atomic state management library that doesn’t require React and can even run directly in a

Writing Cleaner and More Maintainable Eloquent Queries with whereBelongsTo

Writing Cleaner and More Maintainable Eloquent Queries with whereBelongsTo

When working with Laravel's Eloquent ORM, it's common to write queries that filter records based on relationships. Unfortunately, many developers — especially those coming from raw SQL or procedural PHP backgrounds — still rely on manual foreign key checks instead of taking full advantage of Eloquent's

Questions AI Cannot Answer — and Why

Questions AI Cannot Answer — and Why

In today’s technology-driven era, AI is becoming increasingly capable of answering questions, solving problems, and assisting in decision-making. However, there are still clear limits to what AI can do. AI is not a human, and it does not know everything. It is essentially a system that processes data and