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AI, MCPs, and How I'd Approach DX at Supabase

Gen AI is taking over the developer world. From prompt engineering and code assistants to Vibe Coding, it has fundamenta...

How to Use Supabase MCP in VSCode and Cursor

You’ve probably seen all the hype about MCPs, and you might be wondering what an MCP is or whether you should pay attent...

4 Coffee Chats 4 Lessons

In the past month, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to chat with tech professionals working in the open-source space. I ...

Design + Code? (An Outreachy Retrospective)

It’s been a fun few months working on Wikimedia’s design system project via Outreachy. As the project officially draws t...

The Supabase Influence on my DevRel Mental Model

The first in-depth chat I had about developer relations was with Jon Meyers, DevRel at Supabase. We talked about definit...

How to Add SSR Auth to Astro with Supabase and Astro Actions

This blog will go through how to add authentication to a server-side rendered Astro project using actions and the Supaba...

Next Steps: Seeking New Opportunities in Frontend, Design Systems, and DX

Over the last couple of months, I have been working on migrating Wikimedia’s design system, Codex, to Penpot. So far, I’...

Taking Apart and Putting Together Wikimedia's Design System

It’s been over a month since I started working on moving Codex, Wikimedia’s design system, from Figma to Penpot. In that...

On Design Tokens, Variables, and Penpot

Working on Wikimedia’s Figma-based design system (Codex) means diving deep into Figma, Penpot, and all things product de...

An Outreachy Chapter Begins

Hi 👋 , my name is Fatuma Abdullahi. I’m a front-end developer, accessibility advocate, FreeCodeCamp author, and recentl...

Auto Add Alt Text to Img Tags with Easy Alt, an AI-Powered VSCode Extension

This blog post introduces Easy Alt VSCode extension, my submission to Hashnode's AI-for-Tomorrow hackathon. Easy Alt is ...

10x your OSS Game with OpenSauced

OpenSauced is a product that creates a story out of the massive data that GitHub has. It tells of falling giants and ris...

How to Add Search to Your Headless Hashnode Blog with Supabase Text Search and Next.js 14

In this blog, you are going to get your blog posts from the Hashnode API (Application Programming Interface), pass them ...

Golang Syntax, Concepts and Eco-System

In this blog, you are going to understand Go basics, concepts and the Go eco-system. In the end you will be more confide...

Markdown Basics and Beyond

Markdown has always been one of those things where I just wing it when I encounter it. You know, those technologies you ...

Notes on Git, GitHub and GitHub Desktop

I recently got into a bit of trouble with Git while making some open-source contributions. Sweat happened 😅 but thankfu...

Create and Invite Users to your Admin App Using Supabase Edge Functions

In this blog, we will look at how to create and send invite emails to users while staying logged in to your application ...

Build An Image Gallery With Flutter Web And Supabase Storage

What is Supabase Storage? Supabase storage is a service offered by Supabase that allows for easy management of files. It...

My 2022? Reflections (Dev Retro 2022)

Introduction 👋🏼 My name is Fatuma and my journey toward tech and learning to code has been one of many false starts an...

Accept Payments For Your African-Based Business Using Supabase Edge Functions and Paystack

What are Supabase Edge Functions? Supabase Edge Functions refer to code that is serverless and is globally deployed. Thi...