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Add a skip link (Web HIG tip #11)

Load your site, click the address bar, and press Tab. Count how many presses it takes to reach the first thing in the main content. Every one of those stops is a logo, a nav link, or a menu toggle that a keyboard user has to step through on every page, every time. Web HIG tip #11 (Quick #74): Provide a "Skip to main content" link as the first tabbable element. Why it matters A skip link is the…

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The Web HIG (Web Interaction Guidelines) recommends adding a "Skip to main content" link as the first tabbable element on a webpage. This link allows keyboard users, screen reader users, and sighted users with limited mobility to quickly access the main content of the page without having to navigate through unnecessary elements.

The link should be placed at the beginning of the body, point to the id of the main content, and be made visible only when it receives focus. The HIG also emphasizes the importance of landmarks, headings, and IDs existing on every template to ensure the link functions correctly.

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Multi-Tenant SaaS: Shared Database or One Per Tenant?

If you are building a SaaS product for more than one customer, you will have to answer one early question: how do you separate each customer's data?

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  • Separate database per tenant provides strongest data isolation for compliance.
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Kandinsky 6.0 in a pipeline: offload, the untimed default and what to measure

Say your product manager wants "generate a short video with sound" in the app. Kandinsky 6.0, which Kandinsky Lab put on GitHub on 6 October under MIT for both code and weights, is a candidate: text…

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  • Two model sizes: Lite (3B params) and Pro (29B params).
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Who Should Own a Client's Domain and Hosting? A Handover Checklist

If you build sites for clients, this is the setup I use on every project, and the one I'd want any client to insist on from any developer.

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  • Hosting should be in client's name and billed to their credit card
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My Free n8n Workflow Stops at the Hook. My $29 One Starts There: An Honest Diff

My Free n8n Workflow Stops at the Hook. My $29 One Starts There: An Honest Diff Part of my build-in-public series on running LLM workflows in n8n in production.

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  • Paid Repurposing Engine workflow creates seven-day staggered content calendar
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ERA5 is already gzipped. I still made it 47% smaller — losslessly.

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