29 guides. 2021–2026.
A continuously updated teaching library — fundamentals through advanced AI workflows. Browse by year or open any guide for a full lesson.
2026
4 guides
- Career· 8 min
Field notes: running a learning platform in 2026
Lessons from evolving Technical House — tools users return to, content systems, and quality bars.
- AI· 13 min
RAG-lite thinking for documentation sites
Chunking, retrieval, and citations — conceptual guide before you bolt a vector DB onto everything.
- Web· 11 min
Islands, hydration, and when less JS wins
Partial hydration thinking for marketing + app hybrids — ship less JavaScript by default.
- Tools· 12 min
Designing AdSense-safe learning sites
What “low value content” usually means in practice — and how educational products avoid it.
2025
6 guides
- Prompts· 14 min
Advanced prompt chaining for feature work
Multi-step agent-style flows: research → plan → implement → test — with human gates.
- Tools· 10 min
Observability for small teams
Logs, metrics, and traces at indie scale — enough signal without an enterprise bill.
- Web· 11 min
Edge caching and CDN thinking for app builders
Cache keys, stale-while-revalidate, and when personalization must bypass the edge.
- Career· 10 min
From tutorial hell to a portfolio that hires
Project ideas, writeups, and demos that prove you can finish — not just follow along.
- AI· 13 min
LLM security basics for web developers
Prompt injection, secret leakage, and unsafe HTML — what to watch when AI touches your product.
- Tools· 9 min
Shipping checklists that catch real bugs
Pre-launch QA for marketing sites and apps — a11y, SEO, analytics, and empty states.
2024
6 guides
- Prompts· 12 min
Prompt evaluation without an ML team
Rubrics, golden examples, and A/B prompt battles you can run in a browser.
- Career· 11 min
Content systems for technical blogs
Outlines, update cadences, and series that compound — how to look consistently active for years.
- Web· 10 min
Auth UX patterns for SaaS side projects
Sessions, magic links, and error states that do not trap users in limbo.
- Web· 9 min
Tailwind systems (not utility chaos)
Design tokens, component classes, and when to extract — keeping velocity without a mess.
- Web· 12 min
TypeScript for React developers: the useful 20%
Props, events, discriminated unions, and typing fetch results without drowning in generics.
- Tools· 10 min
Designing interactive learning tools on the web
Why playgrounds beat walls of text — and how to ship them without a backend ML bill.
2023
6 guides
- Tools· 13 min
SEO for developer sites that actually teach
Titles, internals, structured data, and why thin pages get “low value content” flags.
- AI· 11 min
Building a personal AI workflow for web work
A weekly system: planning briefs, implementation prompts, review prompts, and a learning log.
- Prompts· 10 min
Prompt patterns for code review
Reusable prompt structures that return severity-ranked findings instead of fluff.
- AI· 12 min
AI pair programming: rules of engagement
How to use Copilot, Cursor, and chat models without shipping hallucinated APIs.
- Career· 9 min
Debugging like a senior (without the ego)
Reproduce, bisect, isolate, fix, and prevent — a loop you can teach juniors.
- Career· 8 min
Git workflows that do not hurt
Branching, commits, PRs, and reverts — habits that keep solo and team projects recoverable.
2022
4 guides
- Web· 11 min
Core Web Vitals for builders (not auditors)
LCP, INP, and CLS explained as engineering work — images, fonts, hydration, and layout shift.
- Web· 10 min
API design habits that save frontend teams
Stable shapes, pagination, error envelopes, and versioning without drama.
- Web· 14 min
Next.js App Router: a mental model that sticks
Server Components, client boundaries, caching, and when to force dynamic — without cargo-culting.
- Web· 10 min
React state: where it should live
Local UI state, server state, and URL state — a decision framework that prevents prop-drilling disasters.
2021
3 guides
- Web· 12 min
JavaScript async patterns you actually use
Promises, async/await, AbortController, and how to keep UI state honest while data is in flight.
- Web· 11 min
CSS layout systems: Flex, Grid, and fluid type
A practical map of when to reach for Flexbox vs Grid, plus fluid type that scales without media-query spam.
- Web· 9 min
HTML semantics that survive redesigns
Why landmarks, headings, and forms matter more than fancy class names when you rebuild a UI.
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