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Recursion (with Common Interview Questions)
July 24, 2025
Recursion in programming is important as it provides more elegant solutions which makes the algorithm easier to read than the iteration. But a lot of engineers are having difficulties to understand ho...
Read MoreRunno – MCP Servers are surprisingly easy. I made one that runs code in a sandbox.
July 23, 2025
Source: Runno – MCP Servers are surprisingly easy. I made one that runs code in a sandbox....
Read MoreCoding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) –
July 23, 2025
Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer...
Read MoreAI Needs UI. It seems like every day, someone who…
July 23, 2025
It seems like every day, someone who doesn’t know anything about design proclaims “UI is going away” thanks to advances in AI. The logic goes that soon we’ll just converse with an AI assistant...
Read MoreThe hidden cost of design system entropy
July 22, 2025
Even the most meticulously maintained design systems accumulate what I call design system entropy – small inconsistencies that compound over time. A duplicated button here, a slightly different...
Read MoreIt’s happening.
July 22, 2025
I didn’t wake up this morning hoping to write yet another thing about AI but here we go. Another proclamation and requirement to use AI in order to be considered for promotion. Weeks ago it was Micr...
Read MoreNobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
July 22, 2025
The Great Experiment Nobody’s Running the Same Way There’s this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they’re doing. We’re past that moment. Or ...
Read MoreThe Great Flood of Adequate Software – by Scott Werner
July 22, 2025
Here’s what I think is about to happen: every task that used to require a team will become a Thursday afternoon project. But not revolutionary, world-changing projects. Just… adequate ones...
Read MoreWhy I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
July 21, 2025
I’ve built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here’s why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actua...
Read MoreHow to Use ARIA Roles and Properties Effectively
July 18, 2025
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is one of the most powerful tools in a developer’s accessibility toolkit—but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. While ARIA can improve accessib...
Read MoreShipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
July 17, 2025
After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance computation...
Read MoreWebAssembly: Yes, but for What? – ACM Queue
July 17, 2025
WebAssembly (Wasm) turns 10 this year, which, in software terms, just about brings it to the age of majority. It has been polished, prepared, explored, and deployed, but in the language of American sp...
Read MoreWhat is popover=hint?
July 17, 2025
If you’ve been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exac...
Read MoreThe History of Ecommerce Part II
July 17, 2025
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. Source: The History of Ecommerce Part II – T...
Read MoreModern async iteration in JavaScript with Array.fromAsync()
July 16, 2025
As front-end engineers, we frequently deal with asynchronous data, such as API responses, streams, lazy-loaded content, and more. JavaScript has long provided tools for managing async logic, but worki...
Read MoreDelegation is the AI Metric that Matters
July 15, 2025
Plotting the Tasks Users Delegate to AI is Key for Product Planning & Monitoring Social Acceptance of AI Forget the benchmarks – the best way to track AI’s capabilities is to watch which decis...
Read MoreDesign Patterns For AI Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
July 15, 2025
So you need to design a new AI feature for your product. How would you start? How do you design flows and interactions? And how do you ensure that that new feature doesn’t get abandoned by users aft...
Read MoreSetting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) | CSS-Tricks
July 15, 2025
First, what is line length? Line length is the length of a container that holds a body of multi-line text. “Multi-line” is the key part here, because text becomes less readable if the beginning of...
Read MoreIn Praise of “Normal” Engineers
July 11, 2025
I have run into any number of these incredible beings over the course of my career. I think this is what explains the curious durability of the “10x engineer” meme. It may be based on flimsy, shod...
Read MoreThe lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
July 10, 2025
Source: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication...
Read Moreuna.im | What is popover=hint?
July 10, 2025
If you’ve been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exac...
Read MoreExpert Generalists
July 10, 2025
As computer systems get more sophisticated we’ve seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we’ve found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialtie...
Read MoreTwo approaches to fallback CSS scroll driven animations | Blog Cyd Stumpel
July 9, 2025
Scroll-driven animations are set to land in all major browsers by the end of the year, but I haven’t seen many people using them in production yet. Maybe because it still feels like an all-or-nothin...
Read MoreI’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry – by Alberto Romero
July 8, 2025
I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isn’t ...
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