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Building a browser-based Viewport Tester

We launched a utility for visual testing and development across various device profiles.

ON

Oliver Nassar

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Promptd: Collaborate on LLM prompts

Meet Promptd, a simple way to collaborate and manage your LLM prompts

HK

Helen Kupp

How Cognitive Complexity Can Improve Your AI-Generated Code thumbnail

How Cognitive Complexity Can Improve Your AI-Generated Code

Learn one way we ensure that the speed of AI-assisted coding does not compromise the quality of our code.

DJ

Danya Jeyabalan

Frontend Tapas: All About Astro thumbnail

Frontend Tapas: All About Astro

Astro’s goal is to make it “nearly impossible to build a slow website” – here’s a quick rundown on what Astro is, how they’re achieving this, and how they’re performing.

DJ

Danya Jeyabalan

Frontend Tapas: A Closer Look at HTMX thumbnail

Frontend Tapas: A Closer Look at HTMX

HTMX is here to shake things up in the JavaScript space. Learn more about the library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML using attributes.

DJ

Danya Jeyabalan

Frontend Tapas: Bun Basics and Beyond thumbnail

Frontend Tapas: Bun Basics and Beyond

Learn more about the all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps with over 60k stars on GitHub.

DJ

Danya Jeyabalan

Two Ways We Use Cloud Tasks thumbnail

Two Ways We Use Cloud Tasks

Learn how Cloud Tasks aggregates notifications to prevent user overload and automates tedious content import processes, improving efficiency and user experience.

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Lena Zhou

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Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience

How we’re improving on the Github code review experience with our in-house tool that focuses on great review comment functionality.

DT

Dylan Trotter

Meet plz.review! thumbnail

Meet plz.review!

A tool for easier and faster code review workflows and UX.

DT

Dylan Trotter

The Non-Coder's Guide to Software Testing thumbnail

The Non-Coder's Guide to Software Testing

The most common kinds of tests you will need to ensure the quality of your software, and a model for thinking and balancing the tradeoffs.

DT

Dylan Trotter

Lessons from YouTube and Thumbtack: How to Invest in Software Infrastructure thumbnail

Lessons from YouTube and Thumbtack: How to Invest in Software Infrastructure

A framework that you can apply when making decisions about investments in software infrastructure.

DT

Dylan Trotter

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New beginnings

Why we started Bit Complete after a decade of building software in Silicon Valley at Google, YouTube, and Slack.

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Dylan Trotter