A Personal Note from Mira – Why I Added a Buy Me a Coffee Button

Hi, I'm Mira – the person behind all the tutorials, tool reviews, code snippets and deep-dive tech articles you find here.

I work full-time as a freelancer – mostly web development, front-end projects, occasional backend work, consulting, and fixing tricky bugs for clients. It's rewarding, but income can be unpredictable.

Creating and maintaining this site takes a huge amount of time that isn't directly billable:

• researching new tools and frameworks
• writing clear, tested tutorials
• building and screenshotting code examples
• formatting everything nicely with MDX
• keeping old articles up-to-date
• optimizing performance and accessibility
• answering reader questions in comments

Each in-depth post can easily take 10–30 hours spread over days or weeks. During that time I'm usually not taking on paid client work, so cash flow pauses while the site grows.

That's why, after a lot of hesitation, I added a simple Buy Me a Coffee button that links straight to my PayPal. It's a low-friction way for anyone who finds real value here to say “thank you” with the price of one or two coffees.

Let me be very clear:

I'm not greedy.
Even €3–5 makes a meaningful difference. It lets me block out a few more hours (or days) each month purely for writing better, longer, more helpful content instead of constantly chasing the next invoice.

More importantly, every contribution – no matter how small – is direct proof that people actually like and use what I'm creating. That feedback means the world to me.

One thing I'm especially proud of: I refuse to run Google Analytics, any tracking pixels, ads, affiliate links disguised as content, or data-selling scripts. Your visits are private. I don't build profiles, I don't sell data, I don't retarget anyone. That makes genuine support like this even more valuable – it's the only real signal I get that the work is appreciated.

If you've ever saved hours thanks to a tutorial here, learned about a tool you now use daily, fixed a bug faster because of something I explained, or just enjoy reading the articles – a small gesture via the button truly helps sustain this space.

Thank you so much for being here, for reading, and – if you feel like it – for any support you choose to give. It keeps the keyboard clicking and the green hair caffeinated 💚☕

– Mira