How to remove the purple gradient hero from a vibe-coded app
The purple-to-blue gradient is the most recognisable sign an app was made with AI. Why it happens, what to use instead, the exact CSS and Tailwind, and how to check you got rid of it.
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Make it look and work real
Practical guides for building with AI, from things that broke in my own apps. Most come with a prompt you can paste straight into your AI tool.
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Supabase row level security isn't enough: how to stop users writing bad data to your app
RLS decides who can write a row, not what goes in it. Someone sent 90 million points straight to our app's database without breaking a single rule. Here are the three database checks that fixed it, with the SQL.
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How to add a Halloween theme to your app, and get an agent to film the demo
A seasonal theme that switches itself on and off, decorations that don't slow anything down, and a demo video recorded, voiced and edited by a coding agent. With the prompts.
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Why your vibe-coded app gets slow once real people use it (5 fixes we made in one day)
Your app was fast in testing and freezes with real users. Here are five slowdowns we found in a live app, how we measured each one, and the exact fixes.
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My AI assistant was quietly broken for a month
Three scheduled jobs failed every day for a month, reporting into a Discord bot that had lost access. What I found when I finally looked, and the boring monthly script I added so it can’t happen quietly again.
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I Made 3 Sets of Evolving Avatars in One Weekend for $60
How I used Claude, Gemini, and an agent to generate about 90 avatars with tiered evolutions, without hiring a designer.
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How to Run a Project Build Day
How I organize and run a single focused day of building, end to end
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How to make your vibe-coded app not look vibe-coded
Your app doesn't look off because of the code. It looks off because of the defaults you never changed. Here's the checklist.
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How to Stop Chasing Every New AI Tool (And Actually Keep the Ones That Earn It)
I tried about fifteen to twenty AI tools over the past year. Six are still in my weekly rotation. Here's the three-question framework I use to decide whether a new tool earns a permanent place.
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From manuscript to moving characters: in a few hours, for almost nothing
The pipeline to turn your creative work into video just got short enough for a solo builder. Not because the AI got smarter. Because the right tools finally fit a weekend.
The Bottleneck Moved: What Karpathy's Agent Workflow Means for People Who Build Things Solo
Unpacking Andrej Karpathy's No Priors conversation on coding agents, AGENTS.md files, AutoResearch, and what the shift to declarative workflows means for solo builders.