TL;DR — Great, but Can’t Replace Expert Mentors, Yet! — GPT-4 was just released, and it represents significant enhancements over ChatGPT powered by GPT-3.5. Among the enhancements is an improved ability to maintain coherence over longer sessions and larger prompts. I spent years building EricElliottJS.com to teach developers important concepts for JavaScript developers. I was curious how well I could…

The only metric that matters is that users love your software. In the near future, all new web applications will be Web3 applications. Web3 developers are building a world where people can own their own data, their own identity, their own money (without the need for traditional banks), their own…

TL;DR: JavaScript + React + Redux still dominate by a landslide. Pair with Next.js & Vercel for best results. AI is exploding. Web3 growth is strong. — So much has changed in the past year, it can feel like everything is ripe for disruption, but in spite of the most disruptive year in tech I have ever seen, the biggest surprise for me on this year’s list is how little the framework ecosystem has changed.

TL;DR: Use Cuid2 so you don’t need to worry about all this identifier complexity. It’s 7:15 am and customer support is swamped. We just got featured on Good Morning America, and a whole bunch of first time customers are bumping into bugs. …

“Every new app should start serverless.” Adobe Creative Cloud’s early services were written in Ruby, but they didn’t perform well. So we decided to rebuild them with Node. That was part of my job. Developing and maintaining always-on API routes is an expensive process. We had custom-built fleet management software…

Deciding what to build is the most important step in product development, but almost every team sucks at it. Here are 7 steps to build the right product faster. I’ve helped hundreds of companies bring products to market: Software for brands like YouTube, BBC, CBS, Zumba Fitness, etc. …

Imagine you’re building a React application. There are a number of things you want to do on just about every page view of the application. Check and update user authentication status Check currently active features to decide which features to render (needed for continuous delivery) Log each page component mount …

How to bring your music to the metaverse. In 2021, the music industry was rocked by a revolution. The NFT market exploded from a few $million/month to over $3 billion per month between January and December, with just over 1 million users. …

A Tour of 3D Worlds, NFTs, and the Future of Music In 2021, the music industry was rocked by a revolution that will forever change how musicians earn a living. On March 11, 2021, an Instagram artist who had never sold a print for more than $100 prior to October…