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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 found Cursor and it all changed. Cursor is...

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 that I will never share publicly...

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 version of Nuxt, which has become...

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 have a decent shot of winning...

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 of projects. That's when I...

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 lot of variations of language in the...

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" 'uns." I doubt I have as much wisdom to...

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 services company headquartered in Bilbao,...

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 your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. They're...

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 for designers and developers...

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. It's likely you've mistyped many...

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 authentication (short hand 2FA) adds ...

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 interview, or in a sermon. Something I...

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. It could be hundreds of lines of code or one...