Sanding UI

A blog about software craft and quality

I got a buggy WordPress plugin from ChatGPT in 15 minutes. Then I got a good plugin in one shot from Claude. See my failure, success, and iterative improvement.

Learning to code with AI without feeling terrible about it.

Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.

Day 3 of the blitz: a set of ten blog posts, links to getting just the bookmarks from this weblog, and a look ahead at what is left in the blitz.

Recently, a colleague asked me for a code review on some complex UI changes. The idea was to make an...

Compacted Context — Dylan Martin's website, where I publish essays about software engineering, career reflections, or whatever else I'm thinking about, as well as digests of what I'm reading or watching.

Adventures upgrading my personal website with Hugo.

Weeks ago I was looking in to a performance issue for our animated spinner component and stumbled across a tool in DevTools I hadn’t used before: The Performance Monitor Panel. In you open Dev Tools > More Tools > Performance Monitor you’ll see some helpful high-level charts and graphs of the realtime performance data of your UI.

Thinking about tiny experiments and completing some sewing projects

Realizing that I wasn't polishing things in the way I always said, I think I can put my ruminations to rest.