For five months, every Spanish post on this site was read aloud by an English voice sounding out Spanish spelling phonetically. Here is the one-line bug behind it, why the Web Speech API makes it so e...

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A response to Nilay Patel's 'software brain' essay — why the chatbot I shipped last week has no LLM, and what I think people actually yearn for when they say they are tired of AI.

An experiment in replacing traditional portfolio navigation with a guided chatbot — pre-scripted, static, bilingual, and accessible.

Adding a lightweight test suite to a static Hugo site — translation parity, accessibility checks, component rendering, and dark mode — because the things that matter most are the easiest to break.

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

A complete rebuild of my personal website — new framework, new design, bilingual content, mobile-native layout, accessibility-first architecture, and answer engine optimization.

How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns

Why optimizing for answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews matters — and the practical changes I made to my site to prepare for the shift from traditional SEO.

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, and strategic leadership. With 20+ years in tech, she builds high-performing te...

A tool I like for pre-trip briefings the can help groups assess its ability to tackle a tricky objective.

The 54-pound piece of the Red Planet was discovered in the Sahara desert in 2023.

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Lemony doughnuts at home

For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...