Communication: The Importance of Feedback Loops

Lynn Brownlee Agile, Articles, Soft Skills 1 Comment

Effective communication isn’t just about sending messages; it’s about knowing they landed, were understood, and acted upon. In agile software teams, short feedback loops are one of the most powerful ways to reduce misunderstandings and build alignment. Here’s why they matter and how to build them—both inside and outside the development team room.

“The hardest part of any project is communication.” ~Lynn Brownlee

Zod + React Hook Form + TypeScript

One Source of Truth: Deriving Required Fields from Zod

Rachel Walker Articles, JavaScript, React, TypeScript 2 Comments

TL;DR: Struggling to keep form validation and UI in sync in your React app? Here’s how I used Zod and React Hook Form together to define a single source of truth—driving both runtime validation and required field indicators in the UI. The Problem: When Validation Drifts from UI I’ve been writing forms for as long as I’ve been writing code—and …

Zellij The Impressions of a Casual tmux User

Zellij: The Impressions of a Casual tmux User

Jake Everhart Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming Leave a Comment

Let’s get this out of the way: I love tmux. Gaining the ability to multi-task within the terminal was a monumental productivity boost for me, and if you’ve used it in the past, you probably have similar stories about how it leveled up your workflow. It’s fast, it’s well-supported, and it has a plethora of features you can invoke with just a few keystrokes.

…and personally, I can only remember about a dozen of them.

100x Engineering Starts Now: Windsurf’s Game-Changing IDE Experience Part 2 (Coding Examples)

Windsurf’s Game-Changing IDE Experience, Part 2 – Coding Examples

John Hoestje AI, Articles, RAG Leave a Comment

Welcome to the second part of our series on Codeium Windsurf. If you haven’t yet, check out Part 1 to get detailed insights into what Windsurf is and the features it brings to your coding environment. In this section, we’ll explore how you can leverage Codeium Windsurf’s features to accelerate your coding projects using real code examples.

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DeepSeek v. OpenAI: Private AI Deployment Takeaways For Enterprise

Nathan Hawkins AI, Articles, AWS, Azure, Chat GPT, Cloud, Machine Learning Leave a Comment

As access to AI models has become more widely available and more and more people are using these tools on a regular basis, many organizations are interested in providing AI tools to their employees and customers. A key problem with the publicly available APIs is that they have varying levels of security and privacy that don’t always meet the needs …