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5 VS Code Features That Will Supercharge Your Workflow

Visual Studio Code has cemented its reputation as one of the most powerful and versatile code editors for developers. While its core features are well-known, there exists a treasure trove of hidden functionality and extensions that can dramatically transform your development workflow.

The secret to getting repeat work as a freelancer

Finding and chasing new clients is exhausting. Getting more work out of existing ones is much easier, more rewarding and more lucrative. Here’s how to go about it.  

A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers)

Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions. The Interest Invoker API makes these components declarative and hover-triggered, meaning that you create them with HTML, and then the web browser handles the mouseenter and mouseleave events for you, sans JavaScript.  

AI Has Flipped Software Development

For years, it’s been faster to create mockups and prototypes of software than to ship it to production. As a result, software design teams could stay “ahead” of engineering. Now AI coding agents make development 10x faster, flipping the traditional software development process on its head.

Creating proportional, equal-height image rows with CSS

Equal-height image layouts seem simple until you try to build one that’s truly responsive. This tutorial walks through my solution using flexbox aspect ratios, the Eleventy Image plugin, and a Nunjucks shortcode.

How to Build a Successful Product

I joined the company as the first full-time employee and, over five years, tried on multiple roles — from product design to strategic planning. I helped the product evolve from an idea to a market-ready service, went through one pivot, and gathered a lot of insights along the way. Here’s what I learned — I hope these lessons help you avoid common mistakes in your own journey.

5 Powerful MCP Servers To Transform Your Development Workflow

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect with external data sources, tools, or systems. This makes them much more useful by allowing them to do things like run code, manage files, and interact with APIs.

A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout

We’ve got this pattern on the Set Studio website. It’s three summaries with headings that render in a three column grid which as the viewport reduces in space, automatically stack.

How Model Context Protocol Supercharges Your AI Workflow

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard. It acts like a universal connector for AI applications that will allow them to communicate with external data sources or other tools. So instead of building custom integrations for each of these data sources or tools, MCP provides a standardized way for AI models to access the information they need to provide better and more relevant responses.

How to create an SVG viewer in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Let’s learn how to create an SVG viewer with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We’ll be able to write, paste, and edit SVG code, then preview and export the SVGs.

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