Blog - Thomas Tsoi

March 29, 2026

Traffic Tracking with UTM Parameters for Better Insights

Implement UTM parameters to precisely track the source, medium, and campaign driving traffic to your web pages.

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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