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I have fallen in love with vibe coding. For years I've had a handful of little side project web applications I've wanted to build but wasn't sure when I'd make time to make them real. Then, I...

Photography is a massive part of my life. I carry a camera with me to every significant event and I try to capture important, meaningful moments. A large percentage of them are family photos...

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a fresh design for bradsiefert.com. I've spruced up the UI, design system, and did some spring cleaning on the frontend. I upgraded to a recent...

I have an annual tradition of having friends over to watch the Super Bowl. Each year I make this PDF party game and it's always a lot of fun. I'm proud of the game because casual football fans...

Sometimes, you pick the wrong horse. Or, the wrong front-end framework. Early in my front-end development journey, I decided I was going to choose a VueJS framework and use it for a variety...

The Enneagram has been an incredibly helpful tool for spiritual growth in my life. My therapist had a hand drawn version of this drawing and I decided to design a digital version. There are a...

One of my favorite blog posts of all time is Kevin Kelly's 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice. Kelly is a wonderful futurist and thinker and for his 68th birthday he posted his "advice to the young"...

I got news today that my bank, Simple, would be shutting down their service. Simple Bank is the design-forward, startup bank inside of BBVA Compass, a large international financial...

I want to download this Siri Shortcut but I can't add it because it says it's "Untrusted" and I don't know how to make it run. Help! Siri Shortcuts are Apple’s way to automate things you do on...

I’ve always found Apple’s iOS User Interface ethos a bit odd. When you read Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines, it feels sparse. The HIG is supposed to be the complete documentation...

I love it when you find a small way to use technology to make something mundane a bit easier. Inputting a wifi password is a tiny annoyance that we’ve all had to deal now for quite a while...

We’re living in an increasingly nebulous and complicated world of digital security. There are few hard rules and there is always a struggle to balance security and convenience. Two-factor...

I love collecting quotes. Collecting them is kinda corny and maybe overly earnest, but some of the most important shifts in my life have come because of a quote I heard on a podcast, and...

There's a phrase in software development when you're starting a new project you push what's called your "initial commit" to a repository. It's usually just getting a project setup...