LLMs are powerful but prone to hallucinations. Here’s how to improve the reliability of your AI.

Running Chromium on Vercel in a serverless environment. Here's how to do it in 2024, no hacks needed!

SPF softfail + DMARC is best practice. I explain the pros and cons of SPF softfail vs hardfail, how DMARC and DKIM work, and tips on making sure your emails get through

A quick tip for TipTap, a headless ProseMirror editor

An exploration of the challenges faced by language models in understanding math and learn how strategic prompting strategies and descriptive statistics can enable LLMs to give meaningful and reliable data analysis.

How you store tokens is critical in defending your application against malicious attack. Here's why you should use same-site secure cookies.

PlanetScale is a database provider that offers a unique approach to scaling databases. We chose PlanetScale as our database provider for our new product, and we're excited to share why.

A lightning talk I gave on Storybook in 2022, focused on how engineering and design teams can come together to adopt Storybook successfully

Successful engineering teams don't just happen by chance. Steal my playbook

A discussion of EU data residency issues and a list of EU alternatives to Vercel you can use today

Upgrade your clunky native `window.confirm` to a custom modal, whilst keeping the same confirm functionality. Includes Typescript demo code

gSSP and tRPC is your ticket to a better NextJS experience. Check out how to do it here, with code samples

A quick tip for TipTap, a headless ProseMirror editor

Your website is your storefront, and it can make or break your SaaS business. Get it right with these tips and examples

“Product Engineers want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the product, and love to be involved in making product decisions“. As someone who has switched between product and engineering roles, this resonated. This post is what I aim to be and I wish every engineer would read it.

A set of observations on corporate life and advice to young developers written in a “cave-man” style. Found this at a pivotal moment in my career and nodded along so hard my neck hurt

A short review of perhaps the only fun fiction book on IT and DevOps

One of the best posts on fundraising I have read with helpful mental models. Build, get feedback, learn, move fast. Set your own definition of traction. Over-focusing on fundraising is a trap, you still need a successful team underneath.

If you've moved to Cloudflare and noticed a sudden drop in daily active visitors this is how to solve the problem step-by-step

Yorkshire makers, entrepreneurs, and innovators are blocked. Let's fix that together.

Originally published on the now defunct TechVibes, I reflect on a failed fundraising attempt