Replay (4/26/1): Images slow down your React app, reduce token spend, and more

Ranking & comparing the power of AI developer tools [May 2026] Dive deeper into AI models and tool rankings in April 2026. We break down performance, usability, price, and real-world capabilities across more than 50 features to help you choose the right tool for your development workflow. Exploring Agent Browser: AI agents on the web…

Annotate VIEWS in your Oracle AI Database

Schema Enrichment is the concept of going back to the schema of a legacy database application, and adding additional metadata. This metadata describes the data model, in an attempt to cover any gaps. Maybe the object names are based on an esoteric system, vs using logical labels or business entities. For example, your products are…

20 free Flutter templates for great mobile apps

Editor’s note: Updated by Shalitha Suranga in March 2026 to reflect the current Flutter template ecosystem. Changes include reorganizing the categories, removing outdated templates, adding newer options, refreshing the introduction, and standardizing each entry with a clearer comparison format. Free, open-source Flutter templates can dramatically speed up app development, whether you’re building a production product…

I created a mini RAG Pipeline to get personal training advice

Personally, I support Verstappen and the Redbull Oracle Team This post is a mix of personal and technological, so bear with me. While the personal stuff may not interest you, the ideas and technologies demonstrated here easily cover a wide range of business and technology data and AI challenges. PS If you got here via…

How to design seamless context switching in multimodal UX

Figma AI in 2026: Everything it can do — and what it still can’t do Figma’s AI features have come a long way in 2026 — from text generation and image editing to full UI drafting and code submission. But speed is not the same as quality. This guide details each key feature, its advantages,…

I created a mini RAG Pipeline to answer Oracle tools questions

In my previous post, I used AI Vector Search in Oracle AI Database (26ai) to supplement what my Agent and associated LLM knew about personal training with my own training history and fitness statistics. My MCP Server allows Agents to search my database for knowledge that can be used to help with their answers and…

The React pattern everyone uses that quietly kills performance

React performance advice often gets reduced to a few familiar prescriptions: wrap expensive children in React.memo, add useCallback to handlers, add useMemo to computed values, and move on. In practice, though, those tools only work when the values you pass through them are actually stable. If a parent recreates an object or function on every…

Comprehensive AI enrichment for Oracle Database via MCP

Oracle SQLcl version 26.1 came out last week. Download Release Notes From the release notes, we have this nugget – The schema information tool now supports filtering and the ability to retrieve details for other schemas So what does this mean? I’ve used my handy agent to summarize this tool for me, but the TL;DR…

Why CSS art disappeared from frontend culture

I was scrolling through my old CodePens recently and found a few demos I’d built for an article on CSS text styles inspired by the Spider-Verse. One stippling effect had more than 10,000 views. Two glitch pens had 13,000 combined. They are still some of the most-seen things I have ever made. They were text…

I let Claude review my homework: What was caught and what was missed

Anthropic’s own data puts code output per engineer at 200% growth following internal Code Claude implementation. Review throughput doesn’t match that. The PR fell by the wayside, and subtle logic errors, removed authentication guards, field renames that broke the query three files away, all slipped through. Claude Code Review’s answer is a multi-agent pipeline that…