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Vibe coders.
For people building with Cursor, v0, and Claude, prompts that produce real components.
Building in public when nobody is watching
Nine months at follower 19. One honest post on a Tuesday. What changes when an indie account stops performing and starts thinking out loud.
- building-in-public
- distribution
- story
My first open source PR took six months to merge
A junior dev in Porto spots a bug in a library half the internet uses, opens a PR, panics, and walks away for half a year. What happens after is the actual story.
- open-source
- story
- career
- maintainers
Boilerplates are bicycles, not cars
A developer in Porto bought a $299 SaaS starter, built three dead products on it, then wrote his own setup over a weekend. The fourth one worked. Here's why.
- boilerplates
- dev-tools
- story
- saas
The UI libraries worth reaching for on a SaaS landing in 2026
shadcn, Tailwind UI, Park UI, Aceternity, Magic UI, Origin UI. Six libraries, the jobs each one is actually good at, and the trap of combining them.
- ui-libraries
- landing
- tutorial
AI chat UI patterns beyond ChatGPT
Threads, suggestions, tool calls, streaming. The patterns that make AI products feel modern, and the ones that still look like a fork of the same demo.
- ai
- chat
- patterns
How to brief Claude and v0 to design a hero section
The exact anatomy of a prompt that produces a hero you'd actually ship, plus the four corrections that turn a draft into a finished section.
- ai
- prompting
- hero
- workflow
The Dev Tool I Quit For A Year
In January 2025 I turned off GitHub Copilot. Inline completions, ghost text, all of it. I kept it off for twelve months. I didn't come back triumphant. I came back changed.
- dev-tools
- productivity
- story
- opinion
Prompting AI to build production UI, not demos
Why your AI-generated components look like CodePen examples, and the small set of words that fix it.
- ai
- prompting
- workflow
Empty states are your second chance at onboarding
The empty dashboard is the user's first real impression of your product. Most teams ship a shrug, here's how to ship a tutorial instead.
- empty-states
- tutorial
- onboarding
Command menus 101: why every modern app has one
From Spotlight to Linear's K-bar. What makes a good command menu, and how to ship one without rebuilding it from scratch.
- interaction
- tutorial
- patterns
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