Tired of forcing a legacy CMS into your sleek React stack?
Payload flips the script with a dev-first approach that feels native to modern JavaScript environments. While traditional platforms prioritize marketers, Payload is built for engineers—especially those working in full-stack TypeScript apps with frameworks like Next.js and React….
This post walks through a hands-on experiment in agentic development using an AI-powered digital twin embedded in the IDE. See how a single, well-structured prompt enabled the agent to implement a real user story, generate behavioral tests, and prepare Git commit documentation—with minimal developer input. Includes real-world code samples, implementation insights, and a candid look at what worked, what didn’t, and where human oversight is still essential.
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 …
It’s time to release your latest front-end changes to production. However, as you create a new tag, you notice a large number of commits unrelated to the feature you’ve been working on. Now, instead of simply kicking off your deployment and watching the pipeline run, you need to check with numerous developers and managers to ensure you don’t deploy any …
This post demonstrates some of my favorite search techniques that work well in VSCode, including some basic RegEx (Regular Expressions) expressions that will help you find exactly what you’re looking for in an unfamiliar code base. We will cover VSCode file type inclusions and exclusions, single-line multi-term searching, conditional searching, and more. RegEx can be intimidating to people who aren’t used to using it, but luckily the RegEx expressions described in this post are very easy to remember and incredibly powerful.
