Blog - Thomas Tsoi

March 27, 2026

How to Choose Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors

Learn how to select primary, secondary, and tertiary colors for your design system and apply the 60-30-10 rule for perfect visual balance.

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March 26, 2026

Gemini Embedding 2 vs. BGE-M3: A Deep Dive Comparison for Semantic Search

Google's new natively multimodal Gemini Embedding 2 is powerful, but how does it stack up against the multilingual retrieval specialist, BGE-M3? See a detailed feature comparison here.

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March 25, 2026

Supabase S3 Vector Buckets vs. Postgres Indexes: A Deep Dive

Supabase's new S3-compatible Vector Buckets offer a different approach to vector storage compared to traditional in-Postgres methods like HNSW or IVFFlat. See a direct comparison of speed, cost, and scale.

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March 24, 2026

Bypassing Intermediate Shell Process with proc_open() in PHP

When using proc_open() in PHP, supplying a command as a string launches an intermediate shell process. Switching to an array format executes the target process directly.

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March 23, 2026

CSS Corner-Shape: Native Support for Smoother Squircles is Here!

CSS is finally introducing the native 'corner-shape' property for creating smooth squircles, eliminating tedious clip-path hacks. This experimental feature is currently available in Chromium browsers.

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