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A step-by-step guide on code-signing an Electron application for Windows, detailing the requirements and steps including setting up a Digicert account and obtaining an EV Codesign Certificate.

8 Sep
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Me uno al programa de Devin Ambassadors

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12 Aug
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How I Built a Full Booking System as a Side Project — With Devin as My Engineering Partner

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I built a full booking system for my martial arts academy as a side project — while working full-time as a cofounder. Here's how I used Devin as an async engineering partner to ship real features from my phone.

11 Aug
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Graduated Trust: A Web-of-Trust Proposal for Open Source in the AI Era

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A proposal for re-establishing costly trust signals in open source contribution, using social-graph distance as the basis for adaptive contribution friction.

28 Jul
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How I organize my week on sundays

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28 Jul
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Velopack: Delta Updates for Electron Apps (and Why You Might Not Need Them Yet)

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A practical evaluation of Velopack's binary delta update framework for Electron apps, weighing its delta update benefits and clean cross-platform API against the .NET SDK dependency, Vite bundler friction, and pre-1.0 maturity that make it compelling for new frequent-shipping projects but hard to justify migrating to for established update pipelines.

24 Jul
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Deploy a Seed Site From Your Own Fork

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Make your Seed site truly yours

1 Jul
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Sometimes Buttons are Workflows, Not just Callbacks

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A "restore version" button isn't one operation. It's loading, diffing, confirming, restoring, verifying, and failing — gracefully. Seven states. Model it as a state machine, not a pile of useStates. How I model complex UI workflows in XState, with real patterns from Seed's editor.

23 Jun
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AI Didn't Kill Coding — It Exposed the Real Job

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AI made generating code cheaper, but it didn't make knowing what to build any easier. The real job of software engineering — understanding the problem, modeling the right abstractions, and knowing what the user actually needs — has only become more critical. AI didn't kill coding; it just revealed that typing was never the bottleneck.

23 Jun
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Rich Text Editors Are Mostly Edge Cases Wearing A Toolbar

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Every developer hits it: you build a toolbar and think you're almost done. You're not. Paste normalization, cursor mapping, drag-and-drop, concurrent edits — that's the actual product. Why I built Seed's editor on ProseMirror, and why the document model matters more than the toolbar.

23 Jun
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From Operators to Supervisors: Code Becomes an Artifact

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16 May
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You Won’t Review All the AI-Generated Code. Design Systems You Can Supervise Instead.

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16 May
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Pairing serif & sans-serif for headings vs body — does it actually help reading?

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Research summary on whether using different font families for headings (e.g. sans-serif) and body text (e.g. serif), or vice versa, improves the reading experience.

29 Apr
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Cómo cuidar tu kimono blanco de JiuJitsu (gi) y mantenerlo como nuevo

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6 Mar
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Unlimited self-generated morale

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Jan 2, 2025
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