Using the Popover API for HTML Tooltips

Can it be done? This plucky front-end developer intends to find out. We looked at the Popover API and how it’s made it’s way across all browsers already just last week. One of the things I should have done is looked at the accessibility considerations more closely.

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What if we rotate pairs every day?

Benefits of pair programming are widely accepted but advice around pair rotation remains controversial. When and how frequently should teammates rotate pairs? And… What if we rotate pairs every day? We worked with three teams through an exercise of daily pair rotation.

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Anatomy of a SudoLang Program: Prompt Engineering by Example

SudoLang is a powerful natural language pseudocode programming language that makes it easier to instruct OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, and other language models.

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How We Saved 10s of Thousands of Dollars Deploying Low Cost Open Source AI Technologies

When you first start building AI applications with generative AI, you'll likely end up using OpenAI's API at some point in your project's journey. And for good reason! Their API is well-structured, fast, and supported by great libraries.

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How to document your JavaScript package

Creating and publishing open source packages is a great way to contribute to the ecosystem and community. You made something cool and want people to use it. But simply publishing your module to a registry and crossing your fingers won’t get users.

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Figma’s journey to TypeScript: Compiling away our custom programming language

Skew began as a side project in the early days of Figma. At the time, Skew fulfilled a critical need at Figma: to build out our prototype viewer with support on both the web and mobile.

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A React Developer's Guide to Learning SolidJS

When we initially set out to build Stashpad Docs, one of the first decisions we had to make was whether to use React or to pivot to a different front-end framework. React was the default choice because the engineers at Stashpad are experienced React developers and already had used it to build Stashpad Lists.

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Remix for Next.js Developers

Do you like this guide? If yes you may want to reserve a spot for the Remix for Next Devs Video Course where we will create a full Remix application from scratch using Remix, Tailwind, Supabase, Docker and Fly. Instead of using folders and slashes to define routes, you can use dots (.

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Lazy Loaded Video Component in React 🦥🎥

Do you use videos 🎥 on your website or web application? If so, you may have encountered issues with slow page load times or a suboptimal user experience. Videos can be a powerful tool for engaging your users, but they can also create performance challenges if not optimized properly.

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Multi-Cloud is the Worst Practice

Multi-cloud (that is, running the same workload across multiple cloud providers in a completely agnostic way) is absolutely something you need to be focusing on—at least, according to two constituencies: Declining vendors that realize that if you don’t go multi-cloud, they’ll have nothing left

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AI Programming for Absolute Beginners

If you want to build chat bots, games, or applications using AI models like ChatGPT, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’re going to dive into the basics of SudoLang, a powerful natural language pseudocode programming language designed to instruct advanced language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, and others.

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Async APIs - don't confuse your events, commands and state

In my previous blog post I looked at various technologies for sending data asynchronously between services including RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS EventBridge. This time round I’ll look at the messages themselves which over the last few years I’ve found to be a more complex and nuanced topic than expected.

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When to Use Bun Instead of Node.js

Bun and Node.js are two JavaScript runtime technologies to run JavaScript on the server. Node.js is the undisputed king of server-side development with JavaScript, but Bun has gained popularity thanks to its unbelievable performance capabilities.

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Native Support for CJS/ESM Interoperability Begins in Node.js 22

The adoption of ECMAScript Modules (ESM) for development has become mainstream, yet Node.js continues to use the traditional CommonJS (CJS) format. This has posed challenges for library and application developers. However, with the recent release of version 22, Node.

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What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI?

One of the hottest topics in AI right now is RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, which is a retrieval method used by some AI tools to improve the quality and relevance of their outputs.

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I Solved 300+ Leetcode problems here is what I learnt.

Hi I have finally solved 300 problems on LeetCode. Following is the distribution of the topics I have solved questions from and the number of questions in each of them.

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The age of “Good Enough”

What’s next when everything works fine? Technologists like to speculate, and fret, about the end of Moore’s law: the long-standing rule-of-thumb that computer chips will double in performance every 18 months.

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Low effort image optimization tips

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. So if a picture takes more than 4 seconds to load, does it mean that your website’s content fails to communicate a thousand words? In this blog post, we’ll learn how to identify unoptimized images, how to fix them, and how to validate the fix — so your website can speak volumes with highly-optimized images.

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React's evolution from Hooks to Concurrent React

In this post, we'll look at the history of React and how it has evolved over the years since the introduction of hooks. I'm writing this because I felt like React 17 didn't really introduce anything new, but React 18 felt like such a big leap forward.

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Different Styles of Engineering Leadership

The beauty of software engineering comes from the many different ways of solving challenges ahead of us. Our work can be like receiving an unlimited set of LEGO bricks without instructions, just an end goal to achieve. We can be builders, architects, designers, or inventors.

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