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Mar 20, 2025

Five Things Vibe Coders Should Know (From A Software Engineer)

How to keep your vibe coded app secure and your users safe.

Five Things Vibe Coders Should Know (From A Software Engineer)

Michael J. Fordham

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Nov 13, 2024

AI Everything: Is AI Losing Its Meaning And Impact?

Companies may be over-adopting the phrase “AI”, to their own detriment.

Selection of AI products together

Michael J. Fordham

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Nov 13, 2023

The first four months at my UX subscription agency, Lightning UX

Stories from the first four months at my new on-demand UX design agency for startups.

Lightning UX, an on-demand UX subscription for startups.

Michael J. Fordham

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Jun 30, 2023

I’m launching my own subscription-based UX agency

For years, I’ve been working with startups to help them realise their ideas and products. I’ve worked both as a software engineer and a UX…

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Better Programming

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Michael J. Fordham

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Apr 11, 2023

Building an AI-powered Football Commentator

Generate commentary audio using OpenAI, ElevenLabs and open-source football data

Building an AI-powered Football Commentator

Michael J. Fordham

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Feb 24, 2023

How to turn your Figma designs into an animated website, with Vev

Figma is a great tool for static designs and basic prototyping, but occasionally you may run into scenarios where you need something more…

GIF of AI art animating when hovered

Michael J. Fordham

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Jan 24, 2023

How to publish your Figma design as a functional website with no code

Learn how to convert your existing Figma design into a functioning site without any code.

GIF showing a preview of the site we’re building.

Michael J. Fordham

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Dec 12, 2022

Experimenting with scrollytelling: bringing scroll-animations to the World Cup with no-code

Learn how to tell a compelling story on the web without needing to know how to code it.

Experimenting with scrollytelling: bringing scroll-animations to the World Cup with no-code

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Better Programming

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Michael J. Fordham

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Jan 22, 2023

How to Build a Game for the Playdate Console Using the Playdate SDK and Lua

Build a goalkeeping game

Playdate console with the Keeper game on it.

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Michael J. Fordham

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Oct 22, 2022

How to apply a background gradient or image to your text (CSS & Webflow)

Learn how to apply this UI style in both plain CSS and in Webflow.

How to apply a background gradient or image to your text (CSS & Webflow)

Michael J. Fordham

Michael J. Fordham

UX Designer and Software Engineer, interested in the future of innovative UX. I mainly write about design, development, data and AI. www.lightningux.design

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