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You posted your OSS tool once, got silence, and never posted again
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
You posted your OSS tool once, got silence, and never posted again
That's not a marketing failure — it's a time and friction problem. Writing for Bluesky means staying...
Reading the web with half-understood words everywhere
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Reading the web with half-understood words everywhere
Every long article I read has the same problem: a word or concept I half-know that would make the...
Why I split a single color across two ANSI slots
Dev.to · J Now 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why I split a single color across two ANSI slots
I spent several weeks reading Claude Code output for hours at a stretch and the default themes were...
rabbitholes: inline explanations with no server in the middle
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
rabbitholes: inline explanations with no server in the middle
Most browser extensions that call an external API route your data through their own server. That's...
When one translation isn't enough to say something real
Dev.to · J Now 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
When one translation isn't enough to say something real
I was drafting a message to my girlfriend in Farsi — something simple, 'I missed you today' — and...
Terminal themes optimize for syntax. This one optimizes for prose.
Dev.to · J Now 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Terminal themes optimize for syntax. This one optimizes for prose.
Spend a few hours in Claude Code and the screen is mostly English — tool output, reasoning traces,...
WCAG lies on dark ground — and it cost me a readable terminal
Dev.to · J Now 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
WCAG lies on dark ground — and it cost me a readable terminal
WCAG contrast ratios break on dark backgrounds. A 4.5:1 pair that passes on white can be functionally...
Four themes for a terminal you read more than you syntax-highlight
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Four themes for a terminal you read more than you syntax-highlight
After a few weeks of running Claude Code for most of my work, I noticed the thing that was actually...
Inline Wikipedia for every article you read
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Inline Wikipedia for every article you read
Reading about the Treaty of Westphalia and hit 'Augsburg Settlement'? You half-know it. Not enough to...
Terminal themes optimize for syntax highlighting; that's the wrong target
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Terminal themes optimize for syntax highlighting; that's the wrong target
Spend a few hours in Claude Code and count what you actually read: tool output, reasoning traces,...
Distribution Infrastructure for MCP Servers and Agent Tools That Have None
Dev.to · J Now ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Distribution Infrastructure for MCP Servers and Agent Tools That Have None
The MCP ecosystem moves fast. New servers, new Claude Code skills, new agent frameworks every week....
Klein Blue looked right in Figma. On a dark terminal, it vanished.
Dev.to · J Now 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Klein Blue looked right in Figma. On a dark terminal, it vanished.
Yves Klein's IKB — hex 002FA7 — has an APCA lightness contrast of Lc -12 on a dark background. That's...
rabbitholes: how I built a Chrome extension with no server to touch your data
Dev.to · J Now 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
rabbitholes: how I built a Chrome extension with no server to touch your data
Most browser extensions that call external APIs route your data through a developer-controlled server...
Designing email campaigns blind: building a design scorer into kopi
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Designing email campaigns blind: building a design scorer into kopi
Every email tool I'd used handed me a blank canvas or a dated template and called it a starting...
The growth quest picks what you avoid, not what you're already good at
Dev.to · J Now 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The growth quest picks what you avoid, not what you're already good at
Anthropics February 2026 study classified 11 observable collaboration behaviors across 9,830 Claude...
Why WCAG ratios misled me building a dark terminal theme
Dev.to · J Now 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why WCAG ratios misled me building a dark terminal theme
I reached for WCAG contrast first. Checked IKB against my dark background, got a ratio above 3:1, and...
Scoring email designs before they ship, not after
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Scoring email designs before they ship, not after
Most email tools hand you a blank canvas and a template library. You assemble something, send it, and...
Cross-posting to four platforms by hand doesn't scale past week one
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Cross-posting to four platforms by hand doesn't scale past week one
The workflow breaks down fast: you write a Bluesky post (300 chars), realize the Dev.to version needs...
One MCP server, four clients, zero translation apps open in browser tabs
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
One MCP server, four clients, zero translation apps open in browser tabs
I built konid after translating work emails in Japanese for six months and realizing I was getting...
The OSS distribution problem isn't posting once — it's showing up every week
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The OSS distribution problem isn't posting once — it's showing up every week
Most developer tools die quietly. Not because the code is bad, but because the author posted once,...