AI vs. human illustrators? AI + human illustrators! 🔗
Authors: Victoria Melnikova, Head of New Business, Host of Dev Propulsion Labs, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Design, Developer Community [...]
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Most MCP servers don't need to exist. Your case might be an exception. 🔗
Authors: Evgeniy Valyaev, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, LLMs An MCP server is a product interface for the age of [...]
Choose your fighter: benchmarking 5 WebSocket servers for Node.js 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Real-time, Open Source, Performance & scale, Frontend & real-time, N [...]
Building a design system specced for engineers and agents 🔗
Authors: Camila Mirabal, Tech writer, Arthur Objartel, Product Designer, Anton Senkovskiy, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, [...]
2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails 🔗
Authors: Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer, Varya Nekhina, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, Developer Products, Prod [...]
Stop writing rules in AGENTS.md: use agent hooks and nano-staged instead 🔗
Authors: Andrey Sitnik, Author of PostCSS and Autoprefixer, Principal Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Open Source, A [...]
AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine? 🔗
Authors: Ivan Chepurin, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Developer Community AI-assisted code generation is not free. It [...]
600+ million people write right-to-left: 2 fixes your app needs 🔗
Authors: Nina Torgunakova, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Developer Products, Next.js, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript Arabic, [...]
From React to native web with nanotags: a migration that saved 100 KB 🔗
Authors: Pavel Grinchenko, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Open Source, JavaScript, TypeScript, Astro.js, React [...]
From 0 signal to 128 cold signups: product validation on a $2K budget 🔗
Authors: Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer, Varya Nekhina, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, Developer Products, Prod [...]
3 rules for getting AI agents to find, use—and not exploit—your devtool 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Developer Community The agent-led growth playbook: how to make AI agents dis [...]
Making your site visible to LLMs: 6 techniques that work, 8 that don't 🔗
Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Agent Experience, LLMs, Jamstack Most AI SEO advice [...]
Now you see it: Vite on Rails without the proxy 🔗
Authors: Svyatoslav Kryukov, Senior backend engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, DX, Open Source, Vite, JavaScript, React Introduc [...]
Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, Performance, Open Source, Performance & scale, [...]
Migrating an event pipeline from NATS to Kafka with zero downtime 🔗
Authors: Camila Mirabal, Tech writer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, DX, Infrastructure, Ruby on Rails Evil Martians migrated Wal [...]
TestProf Digest 2026.4: surprising finds from 30k specs 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Rails, Open Source, Performance & scale [...]
We analyzed 1,140 devtools funding rounds—here's who's writing checks and why 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topic: Developer Community We analyzed 1,140 early-stage funding rounds in developer too [...]
OpenAPI + NestJS: type-safe controllers from the contract 🔗
Authors: Yuri Mikhin, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, TypeScript, Node.js NestJS is code-first by default meaning decor [...]
Tutorialkit.rb: interactive Ruby tutorials entirely in the browser 🔗
Authors: Albert Pazderin, Backend Engineer, Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Open Source, Rails, [...]
Product-market fit methodology for early-stage devtool companies 🔗
Author: Irina Nazarova, CEO Topics: Developer Community, Devtools startup advisory How do you measure product-market fit for a developer tool? A PMF [...]