The Productive Dev

Hey, I'm Alyssa 🙋🏽‍♀️ Front-end developer and writer focused on accessibility and component libraries. I create content around programming & productivity and share tips, tools, and tutorials to help you build better and work more efficiently.

Recent Blog Posts

June 6, 2025

5 Speech-to-Text Apps to Boost Productivity

With all the AI tools popping up these days, I figured I'd try out some speech-to-text software in an attempt to boost my productivity. I've been hearing a lot about “developing at the speed of thought”, so here's a list of the top speech-to-text sof...

April 24, 2025

The AI Glossary for Humans: 30+ Essential Terms

Introduction The AI field is buzzing with activity and it can be tough to keep track of all the acronyms and terms. This article will serve as a glossary of AI terms, acronyms and high-level definitions. I've also set up a GitHub repository, which I ...

January 24, 2025

Automate Code Formatting with Prettier, ESLint, Husky, and lint-staged

Introduction Maintaining a formatted and tidy codebase is the ideal scenario for projects. However, ensuring that codebases adhere to these standards requires some work to make this a reality. In this article, I’ll describe the libraries and automati...

November 26, 2024

7 More Mac Apps to Boost Development Productivity

I wrote a similarly titled article back in 2020 including a list of the main apps I use as a full-time developer. Since that was one of my most popular articles and the list of apps I currently use has changed a bit, I thought it would be helpful to ...

November 22, 2024

How to bypass aliases that conflict with bash commands

A Note on the Series: Fast Fridays 🏎 is a series where you will find fast, short, and sweet tips/hacks that you may or may not be aware of. I will try to provide these (fairly) regularly on Fridays. It's common to have aliases in dotfiles that offe...

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