You’ve vibe coded an app. Now what?

On this episode, Ryan chats with Vish Abrams, chief architect at Heroku, about all the work that needs to be done after you’ve vibe coded your dream app.

Do you need an AI prompt engineering course? 10 ways to tell

In just a few years, AI has become a  buzzword  that every business professional and every day person encounters regularly—in their inbox, on their devices, and even in casual conversations. Regardless of your profession or position, you’ve probably used some sort of generative AI tool for your professional and/or personal

How OpenTelemetry Improved Its Code Integrity for Arm64 by Working With Ampere

Learn how OpenTelemetry achieved 15% cost savings and improved reliability by adding Arm64 support with Ampere processors. Discover how cross-architecture testing revealed hidden race conditions and enhanced observability for all platforms. Continue reading How OpenTelemetry Improved Its Code Integrity for Arm64 by Working With Ampere on SitePoint.

Understanding void(0) in JavaScript: What It Is, Why It’s Used, and How to Fix It

Log-ish

I saw a post online this morning that recomended the transformation I could see how this could be very handy. Often you want something like a logarithmic scale, not for the exact properties of the logarithm but because it brings big numbers closer in. And for big values of x there’s

How to build your prototypes without a 35% tariff

Ryan and Ben welcome Alex Malcoci, CEO and founder of MiniProto, to talk innovations in hardware prototyping, the evolving complexities of the global supply chain, the impact of the US-China trade war on manufacturing, and how automation in production could lead to new training programs for future engineers.

Uniformity increases entropy

Suppose you have a system with n possible states. The entropy of the system is maximized when all states are equally likely to occur. The entropy is minimized when one outcome is certain to occur. You can say more. Starting from any set of probabilities, as you move in the direction

Chris’ Corner: Modern CSS Features Coming Together

I like the term “content aware components” like Eric Bailey uses in the Piccalilli article Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries. Does a card have a photo? Yes, do one thing, no, do another. That sort of thing. Eric has some good examples where a UI

Sinc function approximation

The sinc function sinc(x) = sin(x) / x comes up continually in signal processing. If x is moderately small, the approximation sinc(x) ≈ (2 + cos(x))/3 is remarkably good, with an error on the order of x4/180. This could be useful in situations where you’re working with the sinc function and the x

Arithmetic for fun and profit

Four years ago I wrote a blog post about simple solutions to client problems. The post opens by recounting a conversation with a friend that ended with my friend saying “So, basically you’re recommending division.” That conversation came back to me recently when I had a similar conversation during a