Daine Mawer

Tool definitions load into context before an agent does anything.

JavaScript's Date object finally has a real replacement, and it's usable in production sooner than you'd think.

Middle management is flattening industry-wide.

Prompts drift.

One inline conditional to replace three separate at-rules, once the rest of the web catches up.

Anchor positioning and customizable selects both have real browser support now.

A framework for deciding how many agents one engineer can actually run at once.

A framework for staff engineers directing several agents at once, not just reviewing what one of them wrote.

The native compiler is 8-12x faster.

A framework for growing junior engineers now that AI has automated most of the entry-level workload.

A framework for staff engineers reviewing pull requests an agent wrote.

How I used AI through the Monocle.com rebuild.

Benefits, challenges, and the role of AI.

Less boilerplate, fewer surprises.

Interoperability across browser vendors, explained.

A small JavaScript function for the pseudo-class CSS never gave us.

Accurate timelines, and a happy client.

Component libraries and visual regression testing.

Leveraging its insights to optimise performance.

A component library, Storybook, and Next.js, all in one workspace.

Practical ways to make code review less painful and more useful.

A few rules that keep return statements from causing quiet bugs.

A style guide for commits, and a hook that actually enforces it.

Flat, hierarchical, modular, component-based, and feature-based, compared.

Five things that actually move the needle, beyond an annual review.