If you are using GitHub Copilot to review pull requests, you can give it specific instructions via .github/copilot-instructions.md. I confirmed that using either an explicit list with every item starting with When performing a code review, ... or a combined section works.This works:123456789When per...

This June, our PRIDE ERG came together to celebrate the meaningful act of simply being who you are and bringing your whole self to work.

Before saying anything else, I'd like to thank the organisers of JSNation for inviting me to speak in Amsterdam. I particularly appreciate the folks who were brave enough to disagree at the Q&A sessions afterwards. Engaged debate about problems we can see and evidence we can measure makes our work b...

Search is changing. Instead of ten blue links, we now get AI-powered summaries, conversational responses, and sometimes… no need to click at all. For content creators, SEOs, and product owners, the game hasn’t ended – but it’s definitely shifted. Google and ChatGPT are both surfacing content in new ...

Ever tried explaining email deliverability to your pet? You'd probably get the same blank stare as when you ask an AI assistant to help debug your transactional email setup. That's because, until now, AI tools have been like carrier pigeons trying to understand the internet—they know messages need t...

TL;DR: We built app.build, a reliable open-source AI code generator by: limiting initial scope to CRUD web apps, using FSM-guided tree-search actors, implementing extensive validation, and encapsulating context management using an error analysis feedback loop. These architectural choices weren’t arb...

Forward-thinking marketing executives are adopting Agile principles to boost speed, collaboration, and performance. Two Toptal Marketing Agency leaders share the key components of Agile marketing and how your team can implement them.

Business-to-business SaaS companies are turning to part-time CMOs to boost growth while cutting costs. This advice from successful founders and CMOs will help your organization do the same.

Introduction: Why Feature Flag Management & Experimentation Needs a Revolution In today's world, managing feature flags is an essential part…

Yesterday I had lunch with a newly promoted lead and realized I have opinions on mentoring engineers. Here they are.

Germany’s satellite map has been updated with crisp, high-resolution aerial imagery from recent years.

On 25 June 2025, the 129th Ecma General Assembly approved the ECMAScript 2025 language specification (press release, GitHub release), which means that it’s officially a standard now. This blog post explains what’s new.

Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of content...

In this post: why are Postgres connections with sslmode=require insecure? How does Neon ensure secure connections? And what needs to happen to make secure Postgres connections the norm? It’s common to see sslmode=require on the end of a Postgres connection string. Maybe your own shell history contai...