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A persona-based approach to AI-assisted software development

Discover how breaking AI assistance into specialized personas can help you tackle complex software development tasks more efficiently and with less frustration.

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 11, 2025 • 8 min read

AI Claude GPT

Post to social media using Claude Desktop and Crosspost

Crosspost is a small utility I wrote to post across social media networks. It now includes an MCP server for use with AI agents.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 8, 2025 • 5 min read

Open Source AI Claude

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker

A new approach to mocking global fetch() calls that works in both browsers and server-side runtimes.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 27, 2025 • 10 min read

JavaScript Open Source Fetch

Present technical information using a storytelling framework

Streamline presentations to stakeholders using a storytelling approach.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 4, 2024 • 5 min read

Speaking Communicating Writing

How someone temporarily took over my subdomain

How an old DNS record set up my subdomain to be occupied by someone else.

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 21, 2024 • 4 min read

AWS Cloud DNS

Backing up my life with a Synology NAS

Data in a public cloud is out of your control, that's why I decided to create my own private cloud in my office.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 23, 2024 • 12 min read

Security NAS Synology

Managing your to-do-list as a staff+ engineer

With great agency comes responsibility – to yourself. Learn how to triage your projects and tasks into a structured to-do list.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 20, 2024 • 9 min read

Process Productivity Staff+

What's the difference between JavaScript engines and JavaScript runtimes?

Runtimes and engines are often incorrectly referred to as the same thing.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 26, 2024 • 5 min read

JavaScript ECMAScript APIs

Introducing humanfs (formerly fsx): A modern filesystem API for JavaScript

Filesystem APIs in JavaScript runtimes haven't been great for a long time. This is my attempt to make a better one.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 10, 2024 • 11 min read

JavaScript Filesystem APIs

JavaScript WTF: Why does every() return true for empty arrays?

How can a condition be satisified when there aren't any values to test?

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 8, 2023 • 6 min read

JavaScript WTF

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A persona-based approach to AI-assisted software development

Post to social media using Claude Desktop and Crosspost

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker

Present technical information using a storytelling framework

How someone temporarily took over my subdomain

Backing up my life with a Synology NAS

Managing your to-do-list as a staff+ engineer

What's the difference between JavaScript engines and JavaScript runtimes?

Introducing humanfs (formerly fsx): A modern filesystem API for JavaScript

JavaScript WTF: Why does every() return true for empty arrays?

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