Currently in discussions about some early stage funding for building a video game. While most of our work is in web application development, we have some great creatives on the team and have been interested in projects with more expressive design. Stay tuned!

New article on the state of recruiting and the job market today: www.cherryblossomtech.com/blog/its-bro... Also, we had a website design overhaul, check out the new site!

AI can write some code AI still can't attend planning meetings, make architecture decisions, coordinate releases, tell what great code looks like, or take responsibility when something breaks You still need engineers

We're anti-enshittification in this house

The best roadmap in the world doesn't matter if nobody is building it Our team turns ideas into shipped features No hiring cycle required

Any Astro app can be controlled by Hono new. Create `src/fetch.ts` and handle the full request pipeline using Hono's ecosystem.

Astro@astro.build · last mo.

Astro 7 is here! A new Rust compiler, a new Rust Markdown/MDX processor, Vite 8 and more. Get ready for 60%+ faster builds. astro.build/blog/astro-7/

There's a lot of hype around AI in the tech industry these days. Some say AI is useless, some say it's going to make all humans useless. But how is AI really changing engineering today? www.cherryblossomtech.com/blog/ai-engi...

Why did people stop caring about what they make? AI can be useful for creating high quality work, but has mostly been used to create slop. Surely we can reduce the mundanity of work and not lose craftsmanship? Humanity isn't going anywhere and everything is looking and sounding the same.

I hear a lot of programmers say stuff like this. "I can't code anymore after using AI for 6 months." I don't think skills atrophy this fast, but it's definitely easier now to be lazy or lose the drive to do difficult things by yourself when delegation is trivial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vB0...

I was a 10x engineer Now I'm useless | Prime Reacts

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This is an absolutely incredible article on the failures of modern web design: infrequently.org/2023/02/the-...

The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business le...

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This is an excellent article breaking down one of the big issues many user interfaces suffer from in modern web applications: skyward.digital/blog/why-ove...

Why overwhelming your users leads to bad UX

Every time users have to learn how to do something, it adds to their cognitive load. Learn how to simplify UI design to reduce cognitive load and improve UX.

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This is a wonderful video on the nuance of design, and how sometimes we might get too bogged down in color theory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXD... We highly recommend this channel, and the concepts discussed generally align with our philosophy.

Colour Palettes aren't that important

YouTube video by Nonsensical 2D

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