Development Practices • Aug 13, 2025 Git Good: Aliases with Spice Let’s bring more joy to your day-to-day development with practical and simple upgrades to your workflow. Let's git good at Git aliases.
AI for Designers • Aug 12, 2025 Getting Back into Code After Taking a Break: Vibe Coding with Cursor I tried coding passion projects Cursor—the AI-powered code editor—and was surprised by how much I could build with just a prompt.
Artificial Intelligence • Aug 11, 2025 AI-Powered Notetaking: Using Transcriptions & Summaries for Meetings Here are some recommendations for getting a good output from AI-powered notetaking and meeting summary tools.
AI for Developers • Aug 10, 2025 Large Language Models Are Designed to Be Average Large language models like Claude and GPT captured the public imagination — but they're fundamentally designed to produce average outputs.
The Software Life • Aug 09, 2025 Stay Engaged with Your Software Project Even When the Sun’s Out Here are a few strategies that enhance engagement, keep me learning and growing as a developer, even during the summer slump.
Exploratory Testing • Aug 08, 2025 How I Used Testing Techniques on Chatbots I've tested websites and apps for many years. Could the techniques and tips and tricks from these be used for testing an AI Chatbot?
Development • Aug 07, 2025 Use React Hook Forms with Zod Validation, Part Two: Using FormProvider Let's look at error handling and how to share form state across nested components without prop drilling using FormProvider and useFormContext.
Game Development • Aug 06, 2025 A Guide to Developing for Meta Quest on Mac This guide creates a project akin to "Hello World" but for Meta Quest headsets, focused on developing with a Mac instead of Windows.
AI for Developers • Aug 05, 2025 Tame Software Project Complexity with AI: How I Use Cursor to Build a Smarter Knowledge Base I've started using Cursor—an AI-native code editor—to build a searchable knowledge base for my projects. It’s made a noticeable difference.
Development Practices • Aug 04, 2025 What’s the “Points” of Agile, Anyway? Developers often talk about the concept of points in agile software development. Why does everyone care so much?
The Software Life • Aug 03, 2025 What Babies Can Teach You About Being a Better Programmer As a programmer with a newborn, I've started to notice some striking parallels between how babies learn and how we approach programming.
The Software Life • Aug 02, 2025 Building Culture Through Chaos: Prototyping Play at AtomicCon At AtomicCon 2022, our design team led a play-based hackathon that led to the development of Atomic Mini Golf.