Artificial Intelligence • Mar 11, 2025 A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs With a temporary instance of a model and a bit of setup, running a local LLM can be an incredibly useful tool.
UX & Design • Mar 10, 2025 Why Accessibility Overlays Fall Short & What We Did Instead Automated tools like browser plug-ins only identify 30-40% of accessibility issues. This means the remaining 60% must be found manually.
Project & Team Management • Mar 08, 2025 Saving Money or Losing Time? The Real Trade-Off of Skipping a Delivery Lead Skipping a Delivery Lead may seem like a cost-saving move, but it can lead to delays and hidden costs. Learn the trade-offs.
AI for Developers • Mar 07, 2025 Developers: Don’t Let AI Rot Your Brain! Although AI tools might seem like a miraculous time saver, just like a calculator, over-reliance on them will rot your brain!
HTML/CSS, Development • Mar 06, 2025 Preventing Flexitis: 4 Tips for Getting Started With Flexbox If you struggle to accomplish a layout with Flex, it might be the wrong tool. Flexbox is powerful, but it takes a little getting used to.
React Native • Mar 05, 2025 Don’t Reinvent the Wheel or the Modal. Use React Native Reusables Instead. React Native Reusables is a toolkit that lets you instantly add pre-built, customizable, and time-tested components to your React Native app.
Culture • Mar 02, 2025 How We Help Startups: The Big, the Small, and the Medium I've consulted with startups for the past several years, and opportunities shift significantly based on the size and maturity of the company.
Business Practices • Mar 01, 2025 Why One-Click Job Applications Are Bad for Job Seekers Despite my best attempts to avoid the platform, I was recently sucked into LinkedIn and came across a post about one-click applications.
Development Practices • Feb 26, 2025 Using Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY + Server-Sent Events for Real-Time Web Apps If your web app uses a Postgres database, you're already most of the way to live updates in the browser. Here's how to use LISTEN/NOTIFY.
Web Apps • Feb 25, 2025 How to Build and Publish Browser Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari Learn how to develop browser extensions. Follow this guide to see how to adapt your extension to be compatible with three popular browsers.
Project & Team Management • Feb 16, 2025 Empower Teams Through Thoughtful Transitions Preparing your team to operate in your absence, short-term or permanently, is equally important. Here's how to make thoughtful transitions.
Angular • Feb 11, 2025 When to Use Template-Driven vs. Reactive Forms in Angular Angular provides two powerful paradigms for building forms: template-driven and reactive forms. Here's when to use each.