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Jump Design Improvements

Replacing prompts with loops: an example

Speeding up Elixir test suites

The em-dash that broke the server

How LLMs Figures Out What You Mean - No Math Degree Required

Anthropic's Steganography Controversy Explained in Non-Technical Terms

Enforcing Invariants in AI-Generated Code with ADRs and Contracts

Four Ways to Plan Agent Work, and When to Switch

Don't rely on instructions, use Agent Hooks to enforce guardrails

Run a local coding model with pi and LM Studio

Cross-Browser Testing Died and Nobody Told Us

PayPal Has No Undo Button and It Cost Me $687.75

God bless AI, I hate AI

Commit-based Progress Report

Spec-Driven Development: From Vibe Coding to Structured Development

Podcast: New Age Development Workflows

It's a Great Time to be a Software Engineer

How to Setup a New WordPress Site on Digital Ocean Droplet

Struct Updates Now Require Pattern Matching in Elixir 1.19

Why Regex Serialization Changed in Elixir 1.19/OTP 28

When Business Needs and UX Justify CQRS Complexity

Trade-offs in Aggregate Design when implementing CQRS in Elixir

Building a Double-Entry Payment System in Elixir

Building Embeddable Widgets with Phoenix Channels

Scope discipline when AI makes building fast

Embedding-Based Tool Selection for AI Agents

React2Shell serves as good reminder why JavaScript is no fun

Why are dark deployments a good idea even if no features are being shipped?

Granting read only access to a Postgres database on DigitalOcean

TTC USB Outlets are Already Obsolete

Good riddance to Auth0 and social logins

Has AI made the Agile Manifesto obsolete?

NY Times Fade Text CSS Effect

Pushing events back to Live View or Live Component from Hooks

The temptation of polymorphic tables

Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

Iqbal on the West

The Other Girl in Red

I'm rejuvenated by the Elixir EU Conference

Getting Kanban Right (podcast with Fernando Cuenca)

How RTO Created the Strongest Team Building Exercise Ever

No Lie Logs

Penny Game Debrief

Painless widget development using Web Components

DORA: AI boosting productivity, hindering delivery