Notes from across the stack: interfaces, services, the infrastructure beneath them, the career that leads through them, and where software is going next. Published on Babbel, LeadDev, freeCodeCamp, Microverse, and Startup Grind.
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Notes from ViteConf 2025 in Amsterdam. The experience layer is shifting from UX to DX to AX, Agent Experience. LLM-based agents are becoming first-class consumers of our software, and we can choose to design for them on purpose.
A practical, seven-step guide to joining a new engineering team. How to build trust from the interview onward, learn the product, and offer feedback without bulldozing the people who came before you.
The React team no longer recommends create-react-app. A step-by-step migration of a production app to Vite, keeping Jest for tests and fixing browserslist along the way.
Choosing a side of the stack early in a web-development career. How to read your own temperament, the pull toward interfaces versus systems, and commit to the track that actually fits you.
Three ideas that separate a hobbyist from a professional frontend developer. The fundamentals don't appear in a framework tutorial, but they quietly decide how far you go.
Model-level uniqueness validation gives you a nice error message, but it doesn't guarantee integrity. How to enforce an interchangeable unique constraint at the database level in Rails.
The hardest part of open source is the jump from fork to pull request. A clean, professional Git workflow that takes you from first fork to merged PR, with a cheat sheet to keep handy.
The unglamorous realities of starting a business, the ones that rarely survive into the success stories. Written from the founder's side of the table, for anyone about to begin.
Variables, nesting, arithmetic, minification. What preprocessors give you over vanilla CSS, and why a small syntax shift pays off across a real codebase.