AI for Designers • Sep 13, 2026 How I Used a Pinterest Board to Get Better Visual Results From Claude Design How a Pinterest mood board helped me get portfolio designs from Claude Design that actually looked like me, not generic AI output.
The Software Life • Sep 12, 2026 GitHub Alternative List: Quintessential Options Here's the quintessential GitHub alternative list for the quintessential GitHub power user. Nothing can stop your development process.
Developer Tools • Sep 11, 2026 Mixpanel Is Easy to Install. Trusting the Data Takes Work. Mixpanel makes it easy to start collecting events & building dashboards. It's harder to trust those dashboards represent real product usage.
AI for Developers • Sep 10, 2026 How to Move an AI App from a Frontier Model to Open Weights The frontier model’s previous outputs were a useful starting point, but I treated them as suggestions rather than truth.
Delivery Practices • Sep 09, 2026 What It Takes to Run a Mobile App Beta with Real Customers What does a delivery lead do to turn a build story from "we pushed a mobile app beta" into "20 real customers answered a survey about it"?
Developer Tools • Sep 08, 2026 Review: Codex Tools for Improving Accessibility Over the past several weeks, I have found Codex tools for improving accessibility very useful and thought I would share what I have learned.
Atomic Accelerator • Sep 06, 2026 Weekly Wacky Question: What Constitutes a Meal? What Constitutes an Active User? The "Weekly Wacky Question" on a whiteboard became something people in the office started to look forward to.
Project & Team Management, The Software Life • Sep 05, 2026 Finding Joy in the Challenge: 3 Ways to Navigate Tough Software Projects Tough projects often become the ones that teach us the most, stretch us in unexpected ways, and deepen our connections with others.
Evolving the Industry • Sep 04, 2026 Spec-Driven Hiring Was My Most Useful AI Win of the Year When hiring using AI, Talent Profiles are contextual basis for every decision that follows.
Development Practices • Sep 03, 2026 Your Legacy Code Isn’t the Problem When a legacy system is grinding your organization down, the instinct is to ask, "How do we modernize this code?" Wrong question.
AI for Developers • Sep 02, 2026 Quit Blabbing, Claude Code! Shorter Answers with Output Styles I wanted to change Claude Code’s wall of text answers. I found output styles, markdown files that control how the agent talks to you.
Development Practices • Sep 01, 2026 How PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus and How We Got It Back Pull request (PR) reviews are one of those engineering practices that almost everyone agrees are important, albeit time-consuming.