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I built Spiceful because I wanted to cook the recipes I kept saving

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Nikki Katsutani

October 22, 2026 • 4 min read

Four AI tools for every coding task

How to choose an AI model for software development

AI & Data Engineering
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Ryan Vanderpol

July 23, 2026 • 6 min read

How Autonomous Should Your AI Really Be?

How Autonomous Should Your AI Really Be?

AI & Data Engineering
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Adam Smith

June 15, 2026 • 6 min read

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The tribe has spoken: RAG alone can't answer the hard questions

Development
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Adam Smith

April 15, 2026 • 12 min read

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How We Used AI to Strengthen Our Team Culture: The Story Behind Our Card Game

Business & Culture
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Roger Chiba

January 19, 2026 • 4 min read

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DevSecOps Quick Wins: A Practical Guide to Secure CI/CD

Development
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Arthur Carvalho

December 9, 2025 • 13 min read

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AI Tools for QA: Is it really worth the hype?

AI & Data Engineering
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Helton Imroth

October 13, 2025 • 5 min read

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Our Blueprint for Landing Page Success

UX/UI Design
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Serg Rodriguez & Maite Lara

September 29, 2025 • 3 min read

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Avoid Repetition and Enforce Standards with Custom CDK Constructs in TypeScript

Development
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Andre Santos

August 11, 2025 • 5 min read

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UV: A powerful, reliable and retro-compatible package manager for Python

Development
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Jordao Rosario

July 21, 2025 • 5 min read

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Keeping Your Types in Sync: Lessons From tRPC in the Real World

Development
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Guilherme Marconi

July 7, 2025 • 9 min read

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Rebuild vs. New Build: How Beta Acid Tackles the Two Big Project Types

Development
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Adam Smith

June 25, 2025 • 4 min read

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The Remote Reset: What a Week in Brazil Did for Our Team

Business & Culture
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Anielka Anderson

May 27, 2025 • 4 min read

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Five Zero-Friction 3D Tools You Can Master in an Afternoon

Development
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Leandro Reschke

May 13, 2025 • 3 min read

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A Hands-On Guide to Serverless ETL with AWS

Infrastructure & Architecture
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Adriel Higor

April 28, 2025 • 19 min read

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Siri Intents Walked So Model Context Protocol Could Run

AI & Data Engineering
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Adam Smith

April 13, 2025 • 5 min read

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Detecting Errors Reliably: A Deep Dive into the Error.isError Proposal

Development
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Daniel Moura

March 31, 2025 • 4 min read

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Exploring Azure Functions and AWS Lambda

Development
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React Native Performance Solutions: Debug Like a Pro

Development
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Thiago Afonso

January 21, 2025 • 5 min read

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Boosting Multithreaded Performance with Atomics.pause in JavaScript

Development
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Daniel Moura

January 14, 2025 • 4 min read

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Next.js 15: A Deep Dive into Modern Web Development

Development
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Otavio Barros

December 12, 2024 • 12 min read

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Experimenting with Anthropic's Computer Use for QA

AI & Data Engineering
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Adam Smith

December 4, 2024 • 4 min read

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Upcoming JavaScript Features: Simplifying Array Combinations with Array.zip and Array.zipKeyed

Development
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Daniel Moura

November 13, 2024 • 5 min read

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Cursor dethrones Copilot

Development
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Adam Smith

October 14, 2024 • 6 min read

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Introducing Our Clean and Modular FastAPI Reference Architecture

Infrastructure & Architecture
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Adam Smith

September 19, 2024 • 8 min read

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Design Systems: A Blueprint for Efficient Design

UX/UI Design
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Serg Rodriguez

August 4, 2024 • 6 min read

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Design as a Business Strategy: Gaining a Competitive Edge

UX/UI Design
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Araminta Atherton

July 10, 2024 • 8 min read

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Always Be Delivering

Business & Culture
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Ryan Vanderpol

May 23, 2024 • 4 min read

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Measuring Data Science Models

AI & Data Engineering
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Gastón Barbero

May 19, 2024 • 7 min read

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Sentiment Analysis with GPT-4 Function Calling

AI & Data Engineering
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Ryan Vanderpol

March 11, 2024 • 7 min read

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Using Machine Learning to Create an Auto Repair Estimate

AI & Data Engineering
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Adam Smith

February 21, 2024 • 9 min read

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Create, Test, and Deploy a Typescript Lambda with CDK

Development
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Ryan Vanderpol

January 18, 2024 • 11 min read

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A Brief Introduction to OpenLayers and Web Mapping

Development
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Lucas Sartori

November 27, 2023 • 21 min read

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Mastering the Art of WordPress to CMS Migration

Development
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Guilherme Mierzwa

November 15, 2023 • 27 min read

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Design Handoff: Navigating the transition from design to development

UX/UI Design
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Daniel Corash

November 9, 2023 • 7 min read

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An Introduction to Svelte: A Refreshing JavaScript Framework

Development
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Marlon Ruttman

November 2, 2023 • 7 min read

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Wine & Design

UX/UI Design
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Nikki Katsutani

October 31, 2023 • 5 min read

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Orval: The Secret to Frontend-Backend Coordination

Development
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Guilherme Mierzwa

October 25, 2023 • 23 min read

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API Contracts

Development
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Adam Smith

October 9, 2023 • 8 min read

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How Beta Acid Builds Software

Business & Culture
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Ryan Vanderpol

October 4, 2023 • 4 min read

Easily Add Subscription Payments to your SAAS Product with Stripe

Easily Add Subscription Payments to your SAAS Product with Stripe

Development
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Ryan Vanderpol

September 19, 2023 • 7 min read

Triumphs and Trolling

Triumphs and Trolling

Business & Culture
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Ryan Vanderpol

September 17, 2023 • 3 min read

Flutter vs React Native: Practical comparison

Flutter vs React Native: Practical comparison

Development
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Adam Smith

July 4, 2023 • 3 min read

Writing User Stories for Front-End Development

Writing User Stories for Front-End Development

Development
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Nikki Katsutani

February 20, 2023 • 11 min read

Optimizing your AWS Serverless Costs

Optimizing your AWS Serverless Costs

Infrastructure & Architecture
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Fábio Colombo

February 1, 2023 • 14 min read

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Flutter Platform Aware Widgets

Development
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Adam Smith

October 12, 2022 • 21 min read

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The Canary Release

Development
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Fábio Colombo

June 28, 2022 • 5 min read