Weekly Wins: Celebrating Your Successes and Lessons Learned
Weekly Wins: Celebrating Your Successes and Lessons Learned Let’s be honest: most engineering teams are stuck in a cycle of sprint planning, standups,…
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Celebrating Your Wins: What Made Your Week Unforgettable
Celebrating Your Wins: What Made Your Week Unforgettable As developers, we often focus on what’s broken, what’s next, or what we haven’t shipped yet. …
Free Shopify Alternatives I Actually Set Up for Real Stores (Not Just Tested in a Sandbox)
TL;DR: The $39/month Basic plan isn't actually your problem. The problem is what happens three weeks after launch when you realize abandoned cart emai…
Don't forget to say "please".
I was reading an article recently ( Long-running Claude for scientific computing , if you're curious). It was a great article about how to set up Clau…
🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: April 2026
Post Cover is "Soda Pop" from Kpop Demon Hunters featuring @javz , @embernoglow , @konark_13 , @nickytonline and @meg_gutshall ! Hey everyone! I bring…
The Forgotten Joy of `node app.js`
There used to be a moment, ten years or so ago, when you could go from "I have an idea" to "I have a running web server" in about thirty seconds: // a…
I just launched my second Chrome extension in 8 weeks. Here's what building product two taught me.
Building your second product is completely different from building your first. With Prompt Helix I was learning everything simultaneously — manifest V…
Are We Using AI at the Wrong Scale?
We open our IDE and let a model running somewhere in the cloud read our entire codebase to add a null check - and track our behaviour along the way. W…
Why We're Done Recommending WordPress to Small Business Clients
WordPress served a purpose. But for most small business marketing sites, the overhead isn't justified by the use case. Here's the honest accounting of…
MOSS-Audio: 8B Parameters Challenge 30B, New Benchmark for Open-Source Audio Understanding Models
MOSS-Audio: 8B Parameters Challenge 30B, New Benchmark for Open-Source Audio Understanding Models Understanding an audio clip goes far beyond simply "…
I think software engineers should be a bit worried.
It’s honestly wild to see how much AI agents have accelerated things in such a short time. Tasks that used to take weeks can now be handled in a day w…
What Good Technical Communities Should Actually Organize in 2026
Not every community needs more generic webinars. The best ones build formats that create real momentum for their members. A lot of technical communiti…
"AI Coding Is Alchemy: A Late-Night Reflection from Fullmetal Alchemist"
Late at night, writing code, I had a sudden realization: the experience of building with AI (LLMs) maps almost perfectly onto the foundational princip…
Rewriting LinkaGoGo - my 25 year old Online Bookmark Manager
I've been running LinkaGoGo since 2001. Here's what it took to rebuild it from scratch with AI. About a year ago, I tried using AI coding assistants. …
Free Project Management Tools I Actually Use to Run Volunteer Teams (Asana Alternatives That Don't Require a Budget)
TL;DR: I ran a volunteer onboarding project for a mid-sized nonprofit and we blew past Asana's free tier limit inside the first weekend of signups. Th…
Skills vs Tools vs Rules vs MCP Tools: Hands-On with Langchain, AWS Bedrock Nova
Skills are reusable abilities an AI agent uses to get things done, like writing, reasoning, or coding tasks . The concept was introduced by Anthropic …
GEO / AI Search Thread
REPLIES R1 Citation patterns in ChatGPT are not backlink signals in new packaging. Pages that get cited consistently have dense entity co-occurrence —…
Most WebRTC Projects Don't Fail at Scale. They Fail at 300 Users.
I've lost count of how many WebRTC projects I've seen hit a wall long before they hit "scale." Not at 10,000 concurrent users. Not at 1,000. At 300. A…
Leadership Micro Katas
About twenty years ago, I broke production. I was a young developer, the rollback was slow, and for a few hours, I was sure the company would close be…
The Layoff Era: Why Jobs Are Disappearing—and What It Means for Your Future
🚨 Introduction: The Silent Reset The tech world is going through something massive right now—and it’s not just another wave of layoffs. It’s a reset o…
From Distracted to Focused: Mac Apps That Actually Made a Difference
I kept thinking I’ll write this someday. But every time I sat down, I felt like I’m not “productive enough” to talk about productivity. Some days I ge…
What Is Sovereign?
Sovereign is the Supreme Ruler of the Lemmings . The word is Sovereign - sov - ver - n . It's known as a noun and a sovereign is a supreme ruler, such…
Am I on the right track? My self-taught journey with React & TanStack
Hi Dev Community! 👋 I’m currently pushing myself through a rigorous journey to become a Full-stack Developer. I wanted to share my current learning wo…
Tech Debt Didn't Start with AI
There once was a junior who spent a week on one unit test. Thirty-seven commits. Each one broken. His senior approved the thirty-seventh because the s…
Vibe Coding Is Making Us Faster — And Dumber At The Same Time
A 16-year-old’s honest confession about shipping code he didn’t understand. I built 200+ files last month. I used Cursor. I used Claude. I used every …
What Does OpenClaw Take From You?
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge . TL;DR: The conversation about personal AI is almost entirely about what these agents give you. The h…
Software Developers: Redundant or Resilient?
In the era before AI-assisted coding, my workflow for any feature followed this pattern: I would analyze the business problem. Even if the Product Man…
AI saved a company $500k. The test suite did the actual work.
Many people are sharing the story of Reco that saved $500k a year using AI to rewrite a JavaScript JSONata implementation to Go. But most of those peo…
Why Mastery Simplifies (And Inexperience Creates Complexity)
The smartest engineers often make things look simpler, not more complex. That can be hard to recognize until you've seen enough bad complexity. A few …
Vibe coding is producing developers who can't debug. We're going to pay for this.
Hello, I'm Tuan. I've been doing technical interviews for backend roles recently. The pattern across the last few rounds genuinely scared me — and I d…