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How to Build a RAG Chatbot for Your Docs with Node.js, Google Gemini, and pgvector

I was helping a team that had a 200-page API documentation PDF. Every new engineer spent their first two weeks Ctrl+F-ing through it, asking the same...

How to Containerize a Node.js Application with Docker and Deploy with GitHub Actions

If you've been building Node.js projects, you've probably had an experience like this. The project runs fine on your machine, but when you push it to a...

No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought...

Play and design: in favour of the novel digital experience

Design used to let us wander; modernity replaced that wandering with efficiency — now, every product decides where you’ll end up before…Continue reading on UX...

What 32 design leaders do when told to move faster

The Greeks knew the answer to this problem, 2300 years agoContinue reading on UX Collective »

The terminal became my canvas

And it’s great… but horrible at the same timeContinue reading on UX Collective »

AX is just the orchestration layer

The work didn’t vanish with the screen. It fell one layer down.Continue reading on UX Collective »

When design becomes the organisation, and AI becomes the design

What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines?Continue reading on UX Collective »

AI Paper Review: Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Today, diffusion models power some of the most impressive AI systems ever built. They generate photorealistic images, create videos, synthesize speech, design...

Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment

Who made this, Designing excuses, DesignOps in the age of AI

The React Native Live Activities Handbook: How to Build iOS Live Activities and Android 16 Live Updates

A Live Activity is the card that sits on your lock screen while a delivery rider approaches, updating itself without you opening the app. Apple shipped the...

Why "It Worked on My Machine" Still Happens in 2026

Every engineering team has said it at least once: "It works on my machine." The phrase has become a running joke in software, but it's rarely funny when it...

How I Used Harness Engineering to Make Our Company AI-Native

Most companies say they want to "adopt AI". In practice this usually means a chatbot bolted onto a website. Meanwhile, engineers using AI coding tools hit the...

Product Experimentation with Regression-Based Causal Inference: Estimating LLM Feature Impact with Python and statsmodels

A randomized A/B test is the cleanest form of product experiment available. The coin flip that splits users between the new prompt template and the control...

How to Build Your First Multi-Agent AI System in Python and LangGraph

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a multi-agent AI system in Python with no orchestration framework. We'll also implement this in LangGraph with...

A Deep Dive into Gabeldorsche: The Bluetooth Stack Android Rebuilt on Purpose

The Android Bluetooth stack spent about a decade being the reason your headphones disconnected during the good part of a song. Gabeldorsche is Google's...

How to Analyze Insider Transactions with Python: A CEO Buying Case Study

When a CEO buys shares after their company’s stock has fallen hard, it's tempting to read the purchase as a vote of confidence. The person running the...

AI systems are demanding new interaction models. Are designers ready?

Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight

Taste cannot be delegated