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How to Navigate Microservices as a Frontend Engineer

Most frontend engineers don't choose microservices. They inherit them. One day you're fetching data from a single API, and the next you're stitching together...

How to Compress PDF Files in the Browser Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step)

PDF files are everywhere. From invoices and reports to résumés and documents, they’re one of the most common file formats we deal with. But there’s a common...

Collected consciousness, exhausting moment, UX Research with AI

Usability, accessibility, and the human-AI paradigm

Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion...

How to Unblock Your AI PR Review Bottleneck: A Tech Lead’s Guide to Building a Codebase-Aware Reviewer

A few months ago, I was reviewing a pull request that added three new API endpoints. The diff was clean. Tests passed. The agent that generated it had even...

Stanford's youngest instructor talks InfoSec, AI, and catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez interview [Podcast #217]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire university. She...

St. Augustine and AI’s false promise

Pinning is not saving. Saving is not favoriting. Favoriting is not flagging.

You skipped the first question. Now you’re adding AI.

When AI decides and human signs off

Don’t simply bolt on AI. Rethink from the ground up.

The basketball playbook for AI builder teams

Thoughtful AI Implementation for UXR Leaders