Tag: React

Web Development Jun 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Fighting Your AI Pair Programmer: Why Rule Files Actually Work (And How to Use Them Right)

Last month, I watched Claude generate a completely wrong folder structure for a React component I'd asked it to scaffold. Not *technically* wrong, it compiled fine, but wrong for *our* project. It didn't know about our feature-based colocation pattern. It didn't know we validate ev...

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Claude AI Agents

Design & UX Jun 20, 2026 • 4 min read

Claude Design Systems Are Finally Becoming Practical, But There's Still Work Ahead

I spent three hours last week debugging why a design component wasn't syncing properly between Figma and my React codebase. Three hours. By the end, I was staring at mismatched tokens, hand-coded fallbacks, and a mental note that the design-to-dev handoff is still one of the most...

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Claude UX Design

Web Development Jun 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Obsessed With USB Hotplug Detection (And Why You Should Be Too)

Last month, I spent three hours debugging a file sync application because my refresh button wasn't working. Not because the button had a bug, but because I'd built the entire feature around *expecting* users to click it. When a USB device connected, nothing happened until someone...

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UI Design React

Design & UX Jun 17, 2026 • 4 min read

The Ego Trap: Why Your Best Code Is Behind You If You Think You've Arrived

I had a moment last month that stuck with me. A junior developer on my team suggested a completely different approach to a state management problem I'd been wrestling with for days. My first instinct? Defend my solution. I'd been writing React for years. I knew the patterns. I'd...

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JavaScript Career Growth

Web Development Jun 13, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Building Admin Panels From Scratch, Low-Code Actually Makes Sense Now

I spent three weeks last year building a custom admin panel for a client's internal tool. Three weeks. We wrote forms, tables, permission logic, validation, the whole dance. The client wanted it in two weeks. By week three, when they finally saw it, they asked for "just a few twe...

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UI Design Enterprise Software

Web Development Jun 9, 2026 • 5 min read

The Infrastructure Problem Nobody's Talking About: Why WebMCP's Missing Piece Actually Matters

I spent two hours last week debugging why an AI agent couldn't find a specific action on one of my client's web apps. The agent kept trying to scrape the UI instead of calling a perfectly good API endpoint I'd exposed. The real kicker? There was no way for the agent to *know* tha...

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UI Design AI Agents

Design & UX Jun 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Waiting for Frameworks to Save You: Why I'm Building Smaller Again

I spent two hours last week debugging why a fresh Next.js project was pulling in 847KB of JavaScript just to display a contact form. The form itself? Plain HTML with basic validation. The irony hit me hard: I'd reached for a tool designed to solve a problem I didn't have, and now...

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AI & Machine Learning Jun 6, 2026 • 5 min read

Free GPT-4o Changes the Game for Developers Like Me, Here's Why I'm Actually Paying Attention

I was skeptical at first. When I heard OpenAI was putting GPT-4o in the free tier, my immediate thought was: "Great, the model gets worse, or there's some artificial limitation." I've been around long enough to know that "free tier" usually means "you get the neutered version." B...

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Startups Claude

Web Development Sep 28, 2025 • 4 min read

From Boxed In to Boundless: My Take on PWA Window Controls Overlay

Progressive Web Apps are breaking free from traditional window constraints. The new Window Controls Overlay feature lets developers reclaim every pixel of screen real estate, but is it worth the complexity?

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