My non-tech friends still don’t _get it_. Despite what you’d believe from Twitter, most people still haven’t seen the magic of AI. They don't use agents. They aren't tokenmaxxing. Most aren't really using AI at all, and if they are, it's a glorified search engine replacement. I couldn’t be more d...
Read articleHey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have **discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month!** Additionally, I will share some posts highlights on **what post I am proud of sharing to Dev.to** and my **top 3 posts that stood out to me this month!** ...
Read articleThere is a particular kind of confidence that only a green CI pipeline can produce. The pull request is open. Unit tests pass. Browser tests pass. The deployment preview looks normal. Nobody has reported a problem in Slack. So the change gets merged. Then Safari users cannot scroll a modal. Arabi...
Read articleyou've felt it. you type a prompt, hit send, and the response starts streaming in under a second. smooth. instant. you feel like you're thinking out loud with a machine. then the next day — same model, same prompt — you wait. three seconds. five. the cursor blinks. nothing. then it all comes at on...
Read articleHi everyone, I've been rarely posting on dev, or even being active at all. I've started thinking about it seriously. > btw post was unstructured. I don't have the time or editorial skills, so this isn't a perfect novel, but rather raw thinking✌ I actually started my journey 8 months ago. It all st...
Read articleMost SEO contracts sell you a monthly PDF. Once a month you get a report that looks *backwards*: here's what dropped, here's the link that broke, here's the Core Web Vitals regression three weeks after it happened, when the damage is already done. As a solo developer that always bugged me. A monthl...
Read article*Three years ago, my webhook tests involved ngrok, a `sleep(5)` call, and crossed fingers. The current pattern uses none of those.* If you've ever tested webhook integrations, this probably sounds familiar. Start your local application. Launch ngrok. Copy the temporary URL into the third-party a...
Read articleI am going to start with a number most people will not say out loud. **1,200 applications.** That is how many jobs I applied to over 3 to 4 months trying to switch from a service-based company to a product-based one. I had spreadsheets, saved searches, and browser tabs I kept telling myself I woul...
Read articleLately every other team I talk to is moving off Selenium Java and onto Playwright with JS/TS. Cool. But when I ask *why*, half the answers are vague. "It's faster." "Everyone's doing it." Fair, but let's actually dig into it. ## The "just let AI do it" moment So management calls a meeting. Decisio...
Read articleIn March 2025 I wrote a Python script that logged into a call center portal, watched dialing servers, and swapped underperforming lists automatically. It worked. I made it better in May. I made it better again in June. By June 24th I had the most capable version I'd ever built — a single file, about...
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