Maina Wycliffe
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Solutions Architect & Software Engineer | Translating Complex Business Requirements into Scalable Tech Solutions
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Maina Wycliffe
@mainawycliffe.dev
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The "Full-Stack Developer" is a myth.
The modern tech stack is far too complex for one person to master. This unrealistic expectation leads to burnout.
Instead, we should value "T-shaped developers"—experts in one area with broad, functional knowledge of the rest.
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The modern tech stack is far too complex for one person to master. This unrealistic expectation leads to burnout.
Instead, we should value "T-shaped developers"—experts in one area with broad, functional knowledge of the rest.
dev.to/adamthedevel...
A Full-Stack Developer Is A Myth
We've all seen the job postings. "Looking for a Full-Stack Developer proficient in React, Vue,...
dev.to
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The "Full-Stack Developer" is a myth.
The modern tech stack is far too complex for one person to master. This unrealistic expectation leads to burnout.
Instead, we should value "T-shaped developers"—experts in one area with broad, functional knowledge of the rest.
dev.to/adamthedevel...
The modern tech stack is far too complex for one person to master. This unrealistic expectation leads to burnout.
Instead, we should value "T-shaped developers"—experts in one area with broad, functional knowledge of the rest.
dev.to/adamthedevel...
Understanding #Typescript and it's quarks is vital for every developer using it and how to write more type safe applications by eliminating a certain class of bugs. This is an interesting article on this topic.
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cekrem.github.io
A surprisingly delightful dev blog!
cekrem.github.io
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Understanding #Typescript and it's quarks is vital for every developer using it and how to write more type safe applications by eliminating a certain class of bugs. This is an interesting article on this topic.
share.google/Oz8ntl0HG6sw...
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I'm bringing back my personal blog on Ghost CMS. To make it easier, I built and open-sourced a tool for automated cloud deployments (GCP).
Check it out! Feedback and PRs are welcome.
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#opensource #HeadlessCMS #technicalwriting
Check it out! Feedback and PRs are welcome.
github.com/mainawycliff...
#opensource #HeadlessCMS #technicalwriting
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm bringing back my personal blog on Ghost CMS. To make it easier, I built and open-sourced a tool for automated cloud deployments (GCP).
Check it out! Feedback and PRs are welcome.
github.com/mainawycliff...
#opensource #HeadlessCMS #technicalwriting
Check it out! Feedback and PRs are welcome.
github.com/mainawycliff...
#opensource #HeadlessCMS #technicalwriting
Announcing the Agent Development Kit for Go: Build Powerful AI Agents with Your Favorite Languages - Google Developers Blog share.google/4lcNrwGfL9is...
Announcing the Agent Development Kit for Go: Build Powerful AI Agents with Your Favorite Languages- Google Developers Blog
Agent Development Kit (ADK) now supports Go. Build powerful, code-first AI agents leveraging Go's speed, concurrency, and A2A protocol.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Announcing the Agent Development Kit for Go: Build Powerful AI Agents with Your Favorite Languages - Google Developers Blog share.google/4lcNrwGfL9is...
The Gemini API now has better Structured Outputs with expanded JSON Schema support. You can use libraries like Pydantic with the Gemini API. The API preserves the same order as the ordering of keys in the schema.
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Improving Structured Outputs in the Gemini API
Today, we're announcing enhancements to Structured Outputs in the Gemini API.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Gemini API now has better Structured Outputs with expanded JSON Schema support. You can use libraries like Pydantic with the Gemini API. The API preserves the same order as the ordering of keys in the schema.
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Wordle Puzzle Created By Maina
Choose a word for friends to guess, then share your own puzzle.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"That painful experience taught me a lesson that’s more relevant today than ever: Scaling production without scaling human judgment is a recipe for disaster. This is the trap most people are falling into with AI."
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every.to/p/how-to-mak...
How to Make AI Write Less Like AI
The system that separates great from mediocre AI writing
every.to
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"That painful experience taught me a lesson that’s more relevant today than ever: Scaling production without scaling human judgment is a recipe for disaster. This is the trap most people are falling into with AI."
every.to/p/how-to-mak...
every.to/p/how-to-mak...
Angular Signals ≠ RxJS Observables 😮💨 If you’re still treating signals like streams, you’re in for a world of confusion.
✅ Signals = reactive state ❌ Signals ≠ event streams 💡 Use computed() for derived state ⚠️ Mutate with .update(), not .push()
#Angular #WebDev #RxJS #FrontendTips
✅ Signals = reactive state ❌ Signals ≠ event streams 💡 Use computed() for derived state ⚠️ Mutate with .update(), not .push()
#Angular #WebDev #RxJS #FrontendTips
The Most Misunderstood Concept in Angular Signals
Why Your Mental Model of Signals Is Probably Wrong (and What to Do About It)
medium.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Angular Signals ≠ RxJS Observables 😮💨 If you’re still treating signals like streams, you’re in for a world of confusion.
✅ Signals = reactive state ❌ Signals ≠ event streams 💡 Use computed() for derived state ⚠️ Mutate with .update(), not .push()
#Angular #WebDev #RxJS #FrontendTips
✅ Signals = reactive state ❌ Signals ≠ event streams 💡 Use computed() for derived state ⚠️ Mutate with .update(), not .push()
#Angular #WebDev #RxJS #FrontendTips
The Green Tea Garbage Collector - The Go Programming Language share.google/ueQ4GHnUvBtI...
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The Green Tea Garbage Collector - The Go Programming Language share.google/ueQ4GHnUvBtI...
Finally, buying a 32GB M2 Max MacBook Pro is paying dividends 3 years later
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Finally, buying a 32GB M2 Max MacBook Pro is paying dividends 3 years later
I'm fascinated by open models, especially in privacy-sensitive industries. They are efficient and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, representing the future of the industry.
#GenAI #LLMs #MachineLearning
#GenAI #LLMs #MachineLearning
Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm fascinated by open models, especially in privacy-sensitive industries. They are efficient and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, representing the future of the industry.
#GenAI #LLMs #MachineLearning
#GenAI #LLMs #MachineLearning
JavaScript: Testing Framework Vitest 4.0 Brings Visual Regression Testing #javascript #typescript #vitest share.google/lLMa2a4VORw5...
JavaScript: Testing Framework Vitest 4.0 Brings Visual Regression Testing
In the major release, the browser mode is stable, which recently offers Visual Regression Testing to uncover optical changes.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
JavaScript: Testing Framework Vitest 4.0 Brings Visual Regression Testing #javascript #typescript #vitest share.google/lLMa2a4VORw5...
This makes a whole sense of direction, they have come from no where but everywhere and I can see the ecosystem is headed to another battlefield of directives that only have a meaning in one or two frameworks share.google/KkGg0MyRaXFD...
Directives Are Becoming the New Framework Lock In | TanStack Blog
A Quiet Problem in the JavaScript Ecosystem For years, JavaScript has had exactly one meaningful directive, "use strict". It is standardized, enforced by runtimes, and behaves the same in every enviro...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This makes a whole sense of direction, they have come from no where but everywhere and I can see the ecosystem is headed to another battlefield of directives that only have a meaning in one or two frameworks share.google/KkGg0MyRaXFD...
Deprecating live editing of JavaScript sources in Chrome DevTools | Blog | Chrome for Developers share.google/obObr9s17Kh9...
Deprecating live editing of JavaScript sources in Chrome DevTools | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Chrome DevTools removes live editing in Chrome 145 (Feb 2026) due to low use and modern alternatives like Hot Module Replacement (HMR).
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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Deprecating live editing of JavaScript sources in Chrome DevTools | Blog | Chrome for Developers share.google/obObr9s17Kh9...
The Rise of JavaScript in Machine Learning - The New Stack share.google/Bo4sQXpMwqjx...
The Rise of JavaScript in Machine Learning
Full-stack developer Laurie Lay explains why using JavaScript and Node.js with machine learning can improve an app's functions and security.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Rise of JavaScript in Machine Learning - The New Stack share.google/Bo4sQXpMwqjx...
Tried React 19’s Activity Component Here’s What I Learned [ With Code Examples ] | by Partha Roy | Oct, 2025 | JavaScript in Plain English share.google/87VANxds6ypw...
Tried React 19’s Activity Component — Here’s What I Learned
Learn everything about the React Activity Component — how it works, why it matters, key benefits, pros and cons, and where to use it.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Tried React 19’s Activity Component Here’s What I Learned [ With Code Examples ] | by Partha Roy | Oct, 2025 | JavaScript in Plain English share.google/87VANxds6ypw...
Ever wondered what Master Yoda would say about your GitHub activity (public)? I've just updated Ripper - The GitHub Griller to have personalities, and Master Yoda is one of them. Be careful what you wish for. ripper-the-github-griller.vercel.app
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ever wondered what Master Yoda would say about your GitHub activity (public)? I've just updated Ripper - The GitHub Griller to have personalities, and Master Yoda is one of them. Be careful what you wish for. ripper-the-github-griller.vercel.app
And PHP keeps trotting on, no fuss and no buzz share.google/14TIivROVKgL...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
And PHP keeps trotting on, no fuss and no buzz share.google/14TIivROVKgL...
Seeing agents in a new light has been insightful. In teaching developers, I often focus on stateless concepts like tool calling. However, for agents to truly add value, they must have state and context, necessitating careful planning
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Agents 2.0: From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents
An overview of the architectural shift from Shallow Agents (Agent 1.0) to Deep Agents (Agent 2.0) and how to build complex AI agents that can handle multi-step tasks over extended periods.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Seeing agents in a new light has been insightful. In teaching developers, I often focus on stateless concepts like tool calling. However, for agents to truly add value, they must have state and context, necessitating careful planning
share.google/cID8N2pnUZwg..."
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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Explained | Docker share.google/0fT2w50enQzK...
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Explained | Docker
LoRA is a method that freezes a base model and adds trainable adapters to teach pre-trained models new behaviors, without overwriting their existing knowledge.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Explained | Docker share.google/0fT2w50enQzK...
The impact prettier has had on the JavaScript ecosystem is just mind blowing in such a short time and seeing the work the went into it and the challenges is so insightful, also curious that Golang inspired this. share.google/9DITqaUKEoi7...
Vjeux » Birth of Prettier
React Conf is around the corner and it's been almost 10 years since Prettier was released. I figured it would be a good time to recount the journey from its early days to now.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The impact prettier has had on the JavaScript ecosystem is just mind blowing in such a short time and seeing the work the went into it and the challenges is so insightful, also curious that Golang inspired this. share.google/9DITqaUKEoi7...
WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch share.google/3ufWqeu1mReY...
WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch share.google/3ufWqeu1mReY...
Gemini CLI is just brilliant
August 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Gemini CLI is just brilliant
The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist | Docker share.google/88mexz6bFt15...
The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist | Docker
Attackers can exploit GitHub issues to hijack AI assistants and exfiltrate private data. Discover how Docker’s OAuth safeguards against cross-repository data theft.
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August 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist | Docker share.google/88mexz6bFt15...