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Drag-and-drop rescheduling with dnd-kit: the four edge cases that were the actual feature

Dev.to · John Builds 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Drag-and-drop rescheduling with dnd-kit: the four edge cases that were the actual feature

We added drag-and-drop rescheduling to our social media calendar (Next.js + dnd-kit, Rails API behind...

I separated writing from scheduling and finally stayed consistent on social

Dev.to · John Builds 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I separated writing from scheduling and finally stayed consistent on social

I market my SaaS through social posts, and for a year my pattern was: strong posting week, busy build...

Why your AI-written posts sound generic (and the one input change that fixes it)

Dev.to · John Builds 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why your AI-written posts sound generic (and the one input change that fixes it)

I spent months drafting social posts with AI to stay consistent as a solo founder. The posts shipped...

Does Reposting Your Own Tweet Help? What the X Algorithm Actually Does

Dev.to · John Builds 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Does Reposting Your Own Tweet Help? What the X Algorithm Actually Does

Short answer: sometimes. Reposting your own tweet on X can squeeze a little extra reach out of a post...

How to persist landing page attribution across OAuth redirects (30 lines of middleware)

Dev.to · John Builds ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to persist landing page attribution across OAuth redirects (30 lines of middleware)

Landing page attribution breaks the moment a user hits an OAuth flow. Here's the scenario: you're...

From GTM migration to missing UTM columns: getting ad attribution right as a solo founder

Dev.to · John Builds 1mo ago

From GTM migration to missing UTM columns: getting ad attribution right as a solo founder

Last month I migrated XreplyAI from hardcoded gtag snippets to Google Tag Manager. One container....

Why we moved from hardcoded gtag snippets to Google Tag Manager in our Next.js app

Dev.to · John Builds 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why we moved from hardcoded gtag snippets to Google Tag Manager in our Next.js app

For the first year of building XreplyAI, our tracking setup was the standard mess: gtag scripts in...

What I built this week: moving publish actions into the editor to fix a silent drop-off problem

Dev.to · John Builds ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

What I built this week: moving publish actions into the editor to fix a silent drop-off problem

Sometimes the bug isn't in the code it's in the flow. We have a thread editor in XreplyAI (Rails API...