Artificial Intelligence How to Prompt AI Without Handing Over Control If you want consistent results when you prompt AI, you must be more intentional about what you ask and about how much control you keep.
Project Stories Case Study: Treating an ETL as a Software Design Problem The success of this project didn’t come from choosing the “right” ETL tool; it was about modeling human workflows and historical context.
Development Practices Delete Your Code! Over time, I've learned you must delete your code. It's a prescribed burn when your unmanaged codebase gets close to spontaneous combustion.
Project & Team Management Accelerate Projects With Vibes, Not Regrets Early-stage project work is delicate. All the code you are writing is in turn shaping that project's long-term success.
Growing as Makers The Secrets to Being an Effective Mentor and Mentee Great mentorship is a two-way street. In strong mentorship relationships, both mentor and mentee engage with intentionality and trust.
Development Practices Master Effective Pull Request Reviews in a High Collaboration Space How do you develop a time-efficient, deep comprehension of the code you are reviewing? Let's talk about effective Pull Request review.
Developer Tools Use Obsidian for Complex Entity Documentation Adding Obsidian to a recent software project created a coherent visual model the team could use for both reference and knowledge transfer.
Exploratory Testing Crafting the Perfect Bug Report – Make Your Issues Count Here's what I've learned about creating an actionable bug report and why this skill is so vital in a development career.
AI for Developers Stuck? Benefits of Pair Programming vs. Using an AI Assistant Facing a tough programming problem? You have a choice: asking a team member to dive in with you, or firing up ChatGPT for some AI assistance.
Developer Tools Clerk: The Authentication Platform Optimized for Speed If you are willing to hand off some granular feature control for speed in the user authetication area, Clerk is an especially fantastic tool.
Web Apps Vercel: A Valuable Debugging Tool Vercel's advertises itself as "stupidly easy" to deploy. I found it offered more debugging gems with its version tracking features.
UX & Design How to Use Zod Transform for Custom Form Validation and Manipulation One strategy for custom validation is using the Zod transform method to manipulate and validate an entry and customize the error message.
