The Software Life • Aug 23, 2025 Novelty is the Secret Ingredient to Product Success, Thriving Teams, and Personal Happiness Novelty isn’t just exciting — it's beneficial. In product development, team leadership, and even in my personal life, novelty drives success.
Design Strategy • Aug 22, 2025 Simplicity in Design Thinking, Part 4: Your Competitive Landscape Use this competitive landscape activity to align on your brand’s current and future position in the market and spark strategic discussion.
AI for Developers • Aug 21, 2025 Distributed AI Agents: A Thought Experiment in Self-Evolving Business Systems Explore how distributed AI agent systems solve the context window problem by creating specialized agents that coordinate like expert teams.
AI for Developers • Aug 20, 2025 A Pragmatic Look at Web Scraping, Open Source, and LLM-Assisted Development My Mrln project serves as an example of a few ethical topics related to creators, AI labs, and LLM-assisted development.
Exploratory Testing • Aug 19, 2025 Onboarding Newbie Testers: Turn Interns into App Quality Champions What if instead of seasoned professionals, you have newbie testers? What if they’re college interns, new hires, or even friends and family?
Development Practices • Aug 18, 2025 Keep a Developer Log (Your Future Self Will Thank You) I recently started keeping a daily developer log, and it has become one of the most valuable habits in my development workflow.
Growing as Makers • Aug 17, 2025 What Are You Looking At? The Power of Awareness The Covid-19 pandemic taught me the power of awareness to change your understanding. I apply that lesson to custom software consulting.
Culture • Aug 16, 2025 Returning to Work as a Pumping Mother: Pump, Work, Repeat The biggest productivity hack for pumping at work? Phone-a-parent. Before I came back from leave, I pinged every pumping veteran I knew.
Artificial Intelligence • Aug 15, 2025 How I Used AI Tools to Create a Software Project Knowledge Base With modern AI tools, I built out a knowledge base in a few hours, using safe and secure tools to handle our client’s sensitive information.
AI for Developers • Aug 14, 2025 Understand Your Tools: Unpacking Bias in Generative AI LLMs can embed and magnify racism, ableism, and sexism. Bias in Generative AI isn’t just a technological problem: it’s a human one.
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.
