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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.
Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.
🎓 UX Decisions I Made Creating a Tech Trainings Page in 3 Days
I built a training page in 3 days. Here are the UX decisions behind mobile keyboard spacing, receipt-style pricing, calendar integration, and form validation that make booking flows actually convert.
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🤖 Fable May Be The Worst Coding AI And It Got Banned By USA
Anthropic's Fable from the Mythos line costs twice as much as Opus and got banned by the USA for non-citizens. Is the most expensive coding AI worth the hype, or are cheaper models doing the same job?
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🚫 r/programming Bans AI and LLM Topics; The Community Has Spoken
The largest programming subreddit banned AI content after months of meta-discussions drowning out actual code talk. Only deeply technical implementation discussions survive the purge.
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Medium Will Pay Editors To Improve Articles For Google Scraping System And Members
Yeah, that is about right. So as you maybe recall, I was reporting some time ago, that as it appears, Google takes my paywalled articles…
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🚀 What's Coming in Next.js 16.3.0: AI Tools, Deadlock Detection, and Cache Control
Next.js 16.3.0 brings AI-native development tools, smarter deadlock detection for 'use cache', and fine-grained browser cache control with bfcacheId. Vercel is betting hard on AI-assisted development.
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🧠 Why Your Website Works For You But Fails For Everyone Else
Your Lighthouse scores and WCAG checklists miss something fundamental: cognitive accessibility. Two users can complete the same task with identical accuracy, but one finds it effortless while the other finds it draining.
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🏴☠️ We Shouldn't Follow Any Google Advice Regarding the Open Web in 2026
Google's deal with publishers is dead. AI Overviews scrape your content and sell ads next to it. In 2026, following Google's SEO advice means helping them steal from you more efficiently. Here's why creators should reconsider everything Google told us.
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🅰️ Angular 22 Will Come With InjectAsync Helper
Angular 22 brings injectAsync helper for lazy-loading dependencies at component level, defaults paramsInheritanceStrategy to 'always' for easier nested route params, and adds Node.js 26 support with Temporal API enabled by default.
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💸 Nobody Expected This: AI Coding Tools Are Getting Expensive Fast
Anthropic estimates enterprise developers spend $900/month on AI. Microsoft and Windsurf are switching to usage-based billing. Here's how engineering teams are adapting to the new economics.
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🔧 Angular 22 Is Phasing Out @Injectable; The New @service() Decorator Is Here
Angular 22 introduces the @service() decorator as a simpler replacement for @Injectable(). The new pattern defaults to root provision and works with the inject() function. Template comments are also coming.
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