Stop Using Hacks for Transparent Cutouts Imagine this scenario: your designer hands you a Figma file where a beautiful hero image fades into the background via a complex grunge texture or a smooth radial gradient. Or better yet, a scrollable list that subtly vanishes at the bottom to hint at more content. Ten years ago, we would probably have reached for a glass of whiskey and started hacking toge
Hello, I am currently making my own HTML+CSS+JS framework, you can view it at my GitHub Repository here: github.com/29cmosier-dev/ZiggyLabs-Framework I call it ZiggyLabs Framework for now, I might rename it, and my main goal is to reduce the HTML clutter that Bootstrap has, and possibly figure out more goals later. I would also like to show off my navbar, as you can see from this post's image abov
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We're all learning how to ship more side projects. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is repo-maxxing. Shipping weekly. Spinning up agents to scaffold full apps overnight. New OSS dropped every Friday. The reality I see with most developers is much more normal: They have six or seven repos sitting in various states of half-attention. A side project from last year that still gets a
Hey dev.to community! I just launched CodeLens AI — an AI-powered code review tool that automatically reviews every pull request. Connect your GitHub repo Open a PR AI automatically reviews the code Detailed review comment posted on PR Bugs and logic errors SQL injection and security vulnerabilities Performance issues Code quality improvements Next.js + TypeScript NextAuth + GitHub OAuth Supabase
Wabi-Sabi and Whitespace: Eastern Philosophy for Web Design What I learned from studying traditional aesthetics that completely changed how I build interfaces Last year, I spent three weeks in Kyoto. Temples everywhere. One rainy afternoon, I ducked into a small museum dedicated to traditional craftwork. I wasn't expecting much. I'm a web developer, not an art historian. But something clicked. T
I’m going on a short vacation this week, so this post is coming out a bit earlier than usual. I actually had a different, more “useful” topic in mind — something educational, something responsible. But then I came across this fascinating article: I don’t like Tailwind. Sorry not sorry written by @freshcaffeine , and I couldn’t get it out of my head. So I decided to write a response instead. I actu
Why We Open-Sourced Our AI Safety Layer When we built the AI safety layer for As You Wish (AYW), we faced a choice: keep it proprietary or open-source it to help the community. Here's why we chose the latter (and why it made our platform stronger). If you're building AI-assisted development tools, you need: Input validation (sanitizing prompts, preventing injection) Output filtering (catching u