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.
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.
