Testing & QA

Starting Terraria modding (again)

This is my first dev blog I'm making a terraria mod I'm not sure if i want to start right now but i am sure to start soon i already have some ideas so…

X-MaP (Cross-Mapped Programming): Treating the Header Row as a Schema, Rows as Instances, and Columns as Lazy Properties

A Japanese-language version of this article is available on Zenn . I've prepared a blank map. Fill in what you need, as your own — and draw the shippi…

How I Built a Free Image Downloader & Collector Extension for Designers & Graphic Apparel Creators

As a developer and creator involved in graphic apparel design at Tshirts I Want , I constantly find myself browsing visual inspiration across platform…

Visual Alignment for Icons and Labels in Tailwind CSS

Vector icons do not line up with text out of the box. Unlike letters, graphic paths lack a consistent baseline, ascender, or descender. If you place a…

The AI Can't See What It Drew

Originally published on hexisteme notes . A while back I wrote about why your vibe-coded app looks worse than you expect. That post diagnosed the caus…

A Practical B2B Website Growth Checklist for US Teams

A B2B website does not need more decoration. It needs to help a qualified buyer understand the offer, trust the company, and take the next sensible st…

The Software Architect Roadmap: What to Learn (and in What Order)

Software architecture is about much more than writing code. A great Software Architect understands how systems are designed, built, deployed, secured,…

Why PCB Assembly Should Start Before Your PCB Layout Is Finished

Most hardware teams follow the same workflow: Requirements → Schematic → PCB Layout → Gerber Files → PCB Assembly On paper, this process looks perfect…

Top 5 AI UI Design Tools in 2026: I Tested Them All With the Same Prompt

Looking for the best AI UI design tool in 2026? I tested Flowstep, Google Stitch, Figma Make, Lovable, and Base44 with the exact same SaaS project man…

Design or Debug

A Familiar Frustration It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday, and I’ve spent the day working on a new high-priority feature. We discussed the requirements over emai…

What the Compactor Found

A developer fixes a critical bug alone at 2 AM. The commit is there. The three hypotheses ruled out before finding the real cause — the hour of reason…

The Interface Is Not The Product. It's The Output

There is an assumption buried so deep in how we build software that it rarely gets questioned. The assumption is that an interface is something you ma…

I catalogued every tell that makes a UI look AI-generated. My own tool kept failing the test.

You can always tell when an AI built a UI. You can't always say why . I maintain StyleSeed — an open-source set of design rules that Claude Code, Curs…

How to Create a Web App To Create Real Looking Product Mockups?

Hello everyone, I want to build a web app similar to the online mockup generator tools out there like this one . I have a rough idea of the product, b…

The Chicken, the Egg, and the Compiler

Bootstrapping with Bootstrap Hi, I am Dheeraj, and this is my first blog here. So I picked a fitting theme: Bootstrapping with Bootstrap . Bootstrappi…

The Case for Standardizing the Design of Websites

People complain that websites are all starting to look the same. They are not entirely wrong. A lot of modern websites do look alike. They have famili…

Why your prototype works for you but not for anyone else

You built the thing and it works. In your hands, on your bench, every time. Then a friend tries it, or it sits in the garage a week, or the temperatur…

We're making the Dreamweaver mistake again, on purpose this time

We spent twenty years getting designers out of the code. AI just put the design back in charge of it. The pendulum swings back Designers used to be in…

Motivational Light: What Stage Lighting Teaches UX Designers

Theatrical lighting designers have a working vocabulary for the decision UX teams still argue about in the language of quality. Discoverability is a d…

Midjourney V7 for Product Photos in 2026: What I Actually Use It For

My Testing Setup I used Midjourney V7 (midjourney.com, Standard plan at $30/mo for this project — volume was too high for Basic) over five weeks acros…

Challenges of Developing a New Conceptual Framework

Creating a new conceptual framework is often more difficult than it initially appears. The challenge is not simply generating ideas. The challenge is …

Claude Design: What It Is, Where It Fits, and When to Skip It

Claude Design is a tool from Anthropic Labs that turns a conversation into editable visual work: prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, mockups, landing…

WikiSpy

How to Redesign Your Wix Website Without Losing Years of Backend Data

If you've been running a Wix website for a few years, you've probably built up more than just pages. You've got Customer Lists full of real contacts, …

From Idea to App Store Screenshots Without a Designer

You built the app. It works. Then you open App Store Connect and it asks for screenshots, and you realize the thing standing between you and "submit" …

The Great Language Smackdown: 54 Languages Through the IVP Lens

Methodology note: This article is a product of GenAI. The methodology imposed online research for generation, then multiple rounds of adversarial revi…

How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV

Hey everyone, Ben here. If you’ve been following the journey of DEV and our open source project Forem , you know we’ve always been obsessed with web p…

Bannx — High-Volume Banner, Ad & PDF Automation for Developers and Designers

If you've ever had to generate hundreds of social media banners, OG images, or PDF certificates programmatically — you know how painful that workflow …

How to Design a Mobile App With AI: The Full Workflow (Start to Finish)

I can design and build a real mobile app in an afternoon now. Not a toy. Something I'd actually put on the store. The part that changed was design. I'…

The Evolution of Circuit Compression

Miniaturization replaced the tube with the transistor. The currency of compromise changed from watts of heater power to milliwatts of leakage and diss…