Vibe coding tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude aren’t just about speed—they’re an opportunity to code smarter and learn faster. Here’s how I use them to sharpen my skills as an engineer.
Improve readability with text-wrap: balance. Learn how this simple CSS property creates visually balanced text for better user experience and design polish.
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I tackle a significant drop in my newsletter subscribers. Join me as I dive into the data using PostHog, identify and fix critical errors, and ultimately switch from ConvertKit to Resend.
In part two of my product analytics journey, I tackle a subscriber drop, dive into PostHog data, fix key errors, and switch from ConvertKit to the developer-friendly Resend.
This video dives into the process I used to diagnose and debug a conversion problem on my personal website using Posthog, a powerful product analytics tool.
Canonical tags are a powerful tool to help search engines understand which version of a page is the original one. This can help you avoid duplicate content issues and ensure that your content gets the credit it deserves.
Structured Data can be added to your site tell Google and other search engines what type of content is on each page using a metadata format called JSON-LD.
I built a tool for summarizing podcasts Using Open AI's GPT and transcription APIs. This is a sample of its output for an episode of the Acquired podcast about Costco's history and business.
Tiny Improvements has seen 350% growth in the last 6 months. This is my reflection on that growth, and tips for anyone interested in writing a newsletter.
A guide to friction logging, a practice that can be used by engineering teams building products to track and improve upon issues that users experience while using a product.
The Third Place is thought of as a space different from home (the first place) and work (the second place), where people can socialize and find community.
I use these tools on every project to help track source code, monitor traffic on my site, and optimize content for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
This is the right format to use if you want to add a subtitle below an h1 tag on your html pages. Semantic HTML makes your site more accessible and better for SEO, since it is easier for search engines to process.
Building a website using the Remix.run webb app framework? This tutorial will teach you how to add privacy-first analytics to your Remix site with Fathom.
You're building relationships with all of your customers, whether you know it or not. Setting up the right CRM for your product can help make those relationships stronger.
I migrated apisyouwonthate.com, a site with 20k+ monthly visits, from Gatsby to Next.js at the end of 2021. Let's talk about what I learned from that experience.
This tutorial will teach you how to automatically add links to heading tags in your mdx posts on your Next.js site with a plugin called rehype-slug. This should work for most nextJS sites that use MDX for content, as well as many other JavaScript-based sites which use MDX.
The article discusses the ESLint rule no-floating-promises which disallows promises without await. The rule is designed to prevent developers from accidentally forgetting to await promises, which can lead to unexpected behavior.
Since its release, teams around the world have been using dependabot to automate the process of keeping your project's dependencies up to date. In this article, I'll show you how you can run dependabot on the command line using dependabot-core.
Powerful AI tools like ChatGPT make it super easy to generate inaccurate and dangerous and inaccurate content. Relying heavily on AI to write can be messy.
Buildspace offers free, online, cohort-based courses on building web3 blockchain apps. If you're interested in dipping your toe into the world of Ethereum apps, the blockchain, or NFTs - it's a great starting point.
For years I did a weekly coding livestream of my React and Python work on Twitch every week, and I'm getting back into it again. This is what sticks out to me as the most valuable learnings from those experiences.
If you come across array.filter(Boolean) in JavaScript code, never fear! It's a handy bit of functional programming that cleans up arrays with null and undefined values in them.
If you're dealing with Open Graph metadata for your site, and you can't figure out how to get your OG content to update after you make changes, this is your guide.
I fully switched my personal site from Google Analytics to Fathom - something that I had been considering for a while, and finally decided to go all in on.
This post came from my work on Surviving Other People's APIs. I've been working on a chapter on Async - the content below came from that writing, but doesn't quite make sense in the context of the book. I didn't want to scrap it entirely, so it's found its way into a blog post. I'd love to know what you think!
My guess is that if you’re reading this, you’re a newly remote worker, due to the rapid and terrifying expansion of the COVID19 Pandemic. I’m not here share medical advice; if that’s what you’re after, there’s far better places to look.
If you follow me across the various other social networks I use, you'll likely stumble across my passion for cycling. For the past 8 or so years, road cycling has been my primary form of exercise. I love cycling; it keeps me sane, and helps me live a healthier life, while seeing the world. If you haven't been on a bike recently, you should give it a shot - I can't recommend it enough.
This is an article about CSS and usability. The ch unit in CSS was a revelation for me, and I promise that if you don't know about it already, you're gonna love it.
Promise.allSettled() is a new API coming to the JavaScript / ES6 standard which can help you more efficiently build node applications that make simultaneous asynchronous API calls
Last week I posted about some stickers I designed and had put up for sale to benefit victims of the shooting in Christchurch, NZ. They sold out far, far more quickly than I ever would have guessed.
Destructuring syntax in es6 (or es2015, etc) JavaScript is a wonderfully useful bit of the language. It allows you to extract values from an Object and assign them to a new variable in one statement -- but it can be confusing to read.
An efficient workday is helped tremendously by having a handful of productivity boosters in your quiver. I use these extensions for Chrome to make my day a little nicer.
