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How to avoid npm link issues

When using component libraries, you'll often need to use npm link in order to test changes to the component library in an app that uses the component library locally. Let's say you're working on a dashboard in a company-portal project and you're

Pre-record your demos

Meta was in the news recently for two failed live demos: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI glasses demo failed in EPIC fashion today 🤣pic.twitter.com/O0UFeoCar7 — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 18, 2025 Meta AI's live demo failed for the entire minute 😢 pic.twitter.com/du4roaW0ER — near

What's new in AI in October?

It's been a while since I did a tech roundup! A lot has been announced in the way of AI—let's dive in. Anthropic has released updates, including a "computer use" mode that will control your computer with AI, allowing you to automate cumbersome

Local-first development & InstantDB

An emerging trend that I think is as exciting as AI and crypto is local-first development. The general idea is that apps should be able to work offline, support realtime collaboration easily (e.g. editing the same document in Google Docs) when online, and that users should be able to

Exploring CloudKit JS

Apple's CloudKit framework offers a secure way to store app data and make it available to all of a user's Apple devices, tied to their Apple account. I was looking into it recently, and I noticed that they also have the ability to use it on

Query strings & cache keys

We were building a page that used query parameters to filter a list of items. I'll use a generic example for this post: let's say we have a Next.js SSR local news website where we have two views that display different lists of articles using

OpenAI announcements, dev creates entire web game using ChatGPT, and creating UI components with AI

OpenAI introduces GPT Store At OpenAI's first developer conference, Sam Altman announced a way to create custom AI bots and share them on the OpenAI platform. They also announced a whole range of new features, and what better way to summarise it than by using their own tool?