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Checking out the new Claude to Figma feature in Claude CLI
Figma dropped Claude to Figma on Feb 17th — I had to test it. My honest comparison against html.to.design, covering tokens, icons, and the real-world verdict.
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THE UX SANDBOX EXPERIMENT: THE ULTIMATE DEV HANDOFF 🚀🛠️
I piloted a new design handoff: spinning up a local Angular 18 "UX Harness" to recreate Figma pages using actual Storybook components. Using Kiro + Claude Opus, Phase 1 is complete!
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Zero-Touch Freelance Admin: Automating Billing & Reporting with AI
How I used Looker Studio and Google Apps Script to build a fully automated billing and reporting system for my freelance clients — for free.
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DEBUG LOG: BREAKING THE "CONTEXT LOOP" IN KIRO (HOW A TEXT FILE SAVED THE BUILD) 🐛🔌
Kiro's context window hit its limit in an infinite loop. A simple text file broke the cycle and produced the best code output I'd seen. Here's how.
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FIELD NOTES: THE SILENCE OF THE SYNTAX (WHY I SWAPPED MEDITATION MUSIC FOR PODCASTS) 🎧
Collaborating with AI agents all day means speaking "Computer" for 8 hours straight. Here's what happened to my brain — and the unexpected fix.
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Trying to fit AI into an Enterprise Workflow (It wasn't a straight line). 📉📈
Bringing AI into a complex enterprise environment with firewalls and legacy code is a different story than a demo. Here's my journey.
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When the dev resources were pulled to other projects, I turned to AI. Here’s what happened.
I turned to AI to build production-grade Angular components when dev resources were scarce. Here's what happened.
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FIELD NOTES: WHEN AI "MAGIC" HITS THE PAYWALL
My experience comparing No-Code AI speed with Agentic IDE control.
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FIELD NOTES: TESTING 3 DIFFERENT AI CODING WORKFLOWS
I’ve spent the last year experimenting with different AI workflows to find the perfect fit for a Design Engineer mindset.
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7 Hours to Freedom: Why I Ditched WordPress for Static HTML
Why I Ditched WordPress for Static HTML
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From Legacy Hosting to Serverless: My New Portfolio is Live.
Building a custom portfolio with AI collaboration and modern infrastructure
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Why is writing your own case studies harder than doing the actual work? 😅
Refactoring my career narrative from "Things I Did" to "Value I Deliver"
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The Lightbulb Moment: Figma MCP, Debugging, and the Art of Translation
Bridging gaps in code and communication
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Using Gemini to stress-test my portfolio against the current market.
I needed an objective perspective to ensure my content hits the right notes for the 2025 job market.
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The leap from 'Vibe Coding' to Spec Coding
Steering docs and spec docs and task docs, oh my!
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The missing link between Design and Code isn't just AI. It's also a Designer using AI.
Updating Storybook on my own- Look Ma, no devs!! well except for the PR :)
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AI WRITES THE CODE - EXPERIENCE WRITES THE ARCHITECTURE
AI needs a driver who knows the road. It didn't suggest the sustainable path—I had to demand it.
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BUILDING A BLOG IN JUST 30 MINUTES
Much better than static markup editors for blogs
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UX Dark Patterns in Amazon Shopping History
Using an AI coded chrome extension to cut through the veil of darkness
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Cursor coding portfolio 2.0-better resume download
Using Cursor to make a sustainable process for updating a downloadable PDF on my portfolio
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Finally closing the gap between Design and Code.
The difference was instant. Cursor corrected the layout immediately because it could actually read the structure.
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From Figma directly to Code: My experience learning Cursor AI.
Cursor AI has removed those guardrails. It allows me to take my exact Figma design and turn it into a static site.