Over-the-shoulder look at what I'm building, what I'm learning, and practical refactors.
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This week has been about closing loops. I'm releasing the DevRelifier (product for helping share and promote tech stuff), which means dealing with the unsexy parts of software development: tax setup and final testing.
It’s less about coding creative features and more about ensuring the business actually works without breaking the law or the user experience.
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I met with some dear friends, Danny and Audrey Roy Greenfeld, in Baltimore for a mini-sprint on the air web-dev framework. Walking around a science museum while brainstorming and cafe-hopping while hacking together was a blast.
During the sprint I created a new testing example (unit, integration, and end-to-end playwright tests) and began extracting features from p...
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This week I was fixing some basic and classic async problems: a "processing" pill that never updated to "complete." Blech.
The goal is to prevent long-running tasks from freezing the user interface. If something takes a second, it’s fine to expect the user to stay on the page until it completes. Bu...
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Welcome to my new weekly newsletter. Each week, we explore one build, one lesson, and one refactor. Only practical ideas to help you build better.
This week I jumped from untangling a messy Stripe integration to light creativity generating an AI promo video. The mental whiplash is real.
Let's start with the AI Promo Video.
I created a 74-second promo video draft in about 30 minutes. AI wrote the code, but I was the...
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