Client Commandments for 2026: After the AI Prototype
A convincing screen is a useful beginning. Agree what delivered means before the celebration.
Code
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Why Startup Landing Pages Look Alike
The page furniture is familiar. Give it a specific product to explain.
Variable Names in Production: A Fictional Field Guide
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The Worst Programming Language Names, Judged Unfairly
Four small objections to language names that have to survive an ordinary sentence.
The 10 Commandments of Web Development Clients
The little calendar has brought luggage. Ten rules for making a web project easier to brief, review and hand over.
How to Make Square Corners with CSS
The CSS declaration for square corners, followed by the image and JavaScript techniques developers once used to make them round.
Movie Hackers: Real Tools and Big Shortcuts
From Sneakers and Trinity to Independence Day, the methods and shortcuts behind nine selected screen portrayals.
What Code Doesn’t Do in Real Life (That It Does in the Movies)
Real programs, borrowed screen text and missing steps: what the computer scenes in Jurassic Park, The Matrix Reloaded and other films actually show.