programming Archives - Lance Cleveland

AI Grades : Codex 5.3 vs 5.4 vs 5.5 Playwright User Login Test : F

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026Lance Cleveland

Recently I’ve been using Codex 5.3 to perform some basic coding tests. The current focus is on crafting new Playwright End-To-End (E2E) tests scripts. Codex 5.3 is only a few…Continue readingAI Grades : Codex 5.3 vs 5.4 vs 5.5 Playwright User Login Test : F

Artificial Intelligence Technology

Grading AI : Codex 5.3 Basic Node Server App : “C-“

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026Lance Cleveland

Today’s experiment with AI uses Codex 5.3 on medium reasoning to update a simple node server app. The entire app consists of a pair of HTML files, and a tiny…Continue readingGrading AI : Codex 5.3 Basic Node Server App : “C-“

Artificial Intelligence Technology

Artificial Intelligence Creates Convoluted Solutions

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Lance Cleveland

Recently I wrote an article about why I think “AI Is Not A Great Coder“. In my opinion, artificial intelligence is really good at some things, truly awful at others,…Continue readingArtificial Intelligence Creates Convoluted Solutions

Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages Technology

AI Is Not A Great Coder

May 25, 2026May 25, 2026Lance Cleveland

Every week I hear a new AI podcast or read an article about AI that claims “artificial intelligence has conquered the coding problem”. The claim that is being made, is…Continue readingAI Is Not A Great Coder

Artificial Intelligence Development Technology

Improve Your AI Assisted Coding With AGENTS.md

February 24, 2026Lance Cleveland

If you work in software engineering you’ve certainly heard about things like “vibe coding”. You’ve probably read about how many companies are now having AI bots writing a majority of…Continue readingImprove Your AI Assisted Coding With AGENTS.md

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AWS CodeBuild Testing Using Private ECRs

May 30, 2024Lance Cleveland

After another month of playing with my latest startup venture at Rally Creek USA, I am back to working on the Store Locator Plus® project. Since that project has been…Continue readingAWS CodeBuild Testing Using Private ECRs

Amplify AWS Development JavaScript Programming Languages Technology

Creating An Amplify App With Persistent Data

January 22, 2023Lance Cleveland

This is my developer journal as I learn about creating an Amplify app with persistent data. The app will be built with JavaScript app with persistent data storage on AWS…Continue readingCreating An Amplify App With Persistent Data

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React Build Settings on Amplify

May 24, 2022February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

The technology stack that was inherited from the prior tech team at Research Blocks came with some outdated methodologies. One of those areas was in the deployment of React applicationa…Continue readingReact Build Settings on Amplify

Programming WordPress

WP_User_Query Inverse (NOT) Search

August 31, 2019Lance Cleveland

It took a LOT longer than it should have to build an efficient query for WordPress users today. The query — an WP_User_Query INVERSE search. The list I was trying…Continue readingWP_User_Query Inverse (NOT) Search

Development JavaScript

Vue Intro Article

November 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

A quick intro to Vue. If you are a jQuery fan I highly recommend looking into adding Vue to your developer toolbox. www.telerik.com/blogs/vue-for-jquery-developers

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Vue – JavaScript Library Outside Google/Facebook Control

August 23, 2018Lance Cleveland

Vue is running on several projects to create a better admin user experience. Vuetify is layered on top and baked into WordPress themes and plugins. You will need to add…Continue readingVue – JavaScript Library Outside Google/Facebook Control

Development PHP

PHP __set() Magic Method Conundrum

August 1, 2018Lance Cleveland

I am completely baffled by this one and hope one of my techie friends can help. I’m using a PHP class with magic methods to set and get the properties…Continue readingPHP __set() Magic Method Conundrum