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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessarily the best programmers – they’re the ones who’ve figured out how to navigate everything around the code: the people, the politics, the alignment, the ambiguity.

Anthropic’s launches Cowork

Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface. The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude Code, but requires far less technical savvy to set up.

Another milestone: Flowbite at 30M npm downloads

Flowbite can be included as a plugin into an existing Tailwind CSS project and it is supposed to help you build websites faster by having a set of web components to work with built with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS.

Software is culture

From ordering delivery in a pinch, to finding genuine connection and meaning, software touches nearly every part of our lives.

I built an app in every frontend framework

Why am I writing this? Well I see a lot of articles bigging up specific frameworks, or putting down other frameworks. But rarely does the author cut through the hype and provide an unbiased comparison between all* the options.

Redesign Onboarding Flows using Causal Chain Thinking

Most onboarding doesn’t fail because steps are unclear — it fails because workflow thinking ignores how people actually make decisions under uncertainty. Causal Chain Thinking uncovers the beliefs, emotions, and risks that drive or block progress. This lesson shows you how to design onboarding that builds confidence, reduces hesitation, and moves customers forward from the very first interaction.

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?

Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

JavaScript SpeechSynthesis API

As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility. One underused API for unsighted users is speechSynthesis, an API to programmatically direct the browser to audibly speak any arbitrary string.

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?

Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.

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