Academic papers and research from my studies, reworked into accessible articles on AI, web development, and beyond.https://research.tim-peters.work/de-dehttps://research.tim-peters.work/articles/web-trends/https://research.tim-peters.work/articles/web-trends/This post summarizes a bachelor thesis exploring three major trends in modern web development: hybrid rendering, headless CMS architectures, and Progressive Web Apps. Rather than treating these as separate topics, the thesis asks whether they can be meaningfully combined, and tests that question by building MovieRec, a movie discovery platform using Next.js and Strapi. Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://research.tim-peters.work/articles/rear-window/https://research.tim-peters.work/articles/rear-window/This article is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Rear Window, built around the film's most radical formal choice: confining the camera almost entirely to a photographer's apartment and his own point of view. It looks at how that restriction shapes the film's cinematography, color, sound design, and pacing, and at an uncomfortable question the film keeps circling back to.Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://research.tim-peters.work/articles/fullstack-javascript/https://research.tim-peters.work/articles/fullstack-javascript/This article documents a university full-stack project in which a coupon-sharing web app called Skimp was built entirely in JavaScript, using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js). It walks through the architectural decisions, the concrete implementation challenges, and an honest evaluation of what worked and what didn't.Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT