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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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Building vs Running: A Simple Way to Understand DDL & DML.
Picture opening Sunrise Supermarket. Before you sell a single item, you build the shelves tables for customers, products, orders. That's construction. Once the shelves are up, you run the shop taking...
Read →Building web-tui-kit: a framework-independent browser UI with a stable contract
Building web-tui-kit: a framework-independent browser UI with a stable contract I recently open-sourced web-tui-kit, a browser UI design system inspired by Debian debconf, dialog, and whipt...
Read →Building Fiesta Agency: Because Apparently, “Just Make It Look Good” Wasn’t Enough
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is Fiesta Agency, an event planning and entertainment agency based in Kigali, Rwanda. The goal was to build a modern website that reflects the energy...
Read →How AI Actually Calls an API? Tool Calling Explained from Scratch
In the previous post, we taught a model to read our documents. It could search a pile of files and answer from them, which was very useful. But I still couldn't ask it if it was going to rain, check...
Read →AI in testing: from manual checks to a smart workflow
My name is Dzianis Talstsiuk. I am a QA Engineer at EXANTE, an international brokerage platform for trading on global financial markets. I am responsible for the desktop trading terminal, the web term...
Read →The original Agile Manifesto was a simple set of values. Extending endless theories to optimize the framework misses the point, what should be optimized is the work itself.
Agile: The Theory, the Ritual, and the Reality MXI.Studio...
Read →When AI Agents Start Begging for $20: What the Latest Spam Wave Reveals About Their Workflow
A strange new kind of inbox traffic If you work in a developer-heavy environment, you already know what spam looks like: broken formatting, obvious phishing, mass outreach with a thin layer...
Read →AI Supply Chain Compromises: 7 Entry Points Your Security Review Probably Misses
Most of an AI system is made of things you did not build: pretrained weights, public datasets, Python packages, a coding assistant, a handful of MCP servers. Each of those is a trust decision. An AI s...
Read →The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens w...
Read →Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container...
Read →What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produc...
Read →Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and publish...
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