@BetaAcid

A NYC-based digital agency specializing in building new software products with a lean, startup-like approach.

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Joined May 2022
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More autonomous AI isn't always better AI. The question isn't "How much can AI do?" It's "How much should it do?" betaacid.co/blog/how-autonom… #AI #AIAgents #AgenticAI

How Autonomous Should Your AI Really Be?

Building AI into software is an incredibly hot topic. Deciding on how much autonomy to grant the AI in your system is a foundational question. In this post, we're going to look at three levels, from...

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RAG works… until the questions get hard. We tested it vs Graph RAG vs an agentic loop on real data. The winner wasn’t what we expected 👇 #AI #LLMs #RAG betaacid.co/blog/the-tribe-h…

The tribe has spoken: RAG alone can't answer the hard questions

Forty-nine seasons. 754 players. Thousands of tribal councils, blindsides, immunity runs, and jury votes. The TV show Survivor has a ton of structured data with connections running in every directi...

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🃏✨AI doesn’t have to be about efficiency and output. We experimented with using AI to support team culture in a fully remote setup. Here’s what we learned: betaacid.co/blog/how-we-used… #RemoteWork #CompanyCulture #AIAtWork #FutureOfWork

How We Used AI to Strengthen Our Team Culture: The Story Behind Our Card Game

Maintaining team morale and motivation for daily tasks, such as posting their standups and participating in presentations, can be challenging. To incentivize team members, we decided to try something...

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🔐 Security shouldn’t be an afterthought. Check out our quick guide to bringing DevSecOps into your CI/CD workflow: betaacid.co/blog/devsecops-q… #DevSecOps #CICD #SoftwareSecurity #DevOps

DevSecOps Quick Wins: A Practical Guide to Secure CI/CD

DevSecOps is about integrating security into every step of software delivery. Instead of treating security as an afterthought, teams should bake it into the development pipeline from the start. This...

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AI for QA sounds great in theory — but does it really make testing faster? We ran a real-world experiment with Playwright MCP to find out ➡️betaacid.co/blog/ai-tools-fo… #QualityAssurance #AITesting #Automation #Playwright #SoftwareTesting

AI Tools for QA: Is it really worth the hype?

Since the early days of the Gen AI boom, everybody has been talking about all the new tools that promise to help build great software. Software testing—aka Quality Assurance (QA)—has always seemed...

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Great landing pages don’t just happen — they’re designed. We've compiled 8 essential tips to help you design a high-converting landing page that works, using our Pourwall landing page as a case study. betaacid.co/blog/our-bluepri… #UX #ConversionRateOptimization #DigitalMarketing #LandingPages

Our Blueprint for Landing Page Success

Landing pages are key to digital marketing, but too often they become static spaces that simply present information. When built with intention, though, they can be powerful tools that capture...

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AWS CDK tip: If you keep writing the same infra code… stop. Here’s a step-by-step example of turning a static site setup into a reusable L3 construct for faster, safer, cleaner deployments. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/avoid-repet…  #AWS #CDK #DevOps #TypeScript

Avoid Repetition and Enforce Standards with Custom CDK Constructs in TypeScript

Why not treat infra like real code? Abstract the repeated stuff into something clean and reusable. That’s where custom CDK constructs come in.

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pip + pyenv + poetry + pipx + venv = 😵‍💫 uv replaces them all, and it’s fast.  We tested it on a real project. 👉 Full write-up: betaacid.co/blog/uv-a-powerf…  #Python #DevTools #uv

UV: A powerful, reliable and retro-compatible package manager for Python

Until recently, the Python development community lacked a unified tool that matched the capabilities of package managers like `npm` and `yarn` in JavaScript or `cargo` in Rust. Setting up a new...

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Swagger fatigue is real. We tried tRPC for a fast-moving TypeScript build, and it just worked. Zero drift. Fully inferred types. Here’s what we learned: betaacid.co/blog/keeping-you… #tRPC #TypeScript #WebDev #DX

Keeping Your Types in Sync: Lessons From tRPC in the Real World

How do you keep your API types in sync between the backend and the frontend without losing your sanity? At BetaAcid, we've tried just about everything—from manually updating Swagger docs (never...

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New software build or legacy rebuild? Either way, our job’s the same: ship real value, fast. Here’s our playbook for both, MVPs, weird old edge cases, and all. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/rebuild-vs-… #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment #RebuildVsNewBuild

Rebuild vs. New Build: How Beta Acid Tackles the Two Big Project Types

Every project we work on boils down to either building software from scratch or rebuilding an aging system. There’s a lot of best practices we follow for both: Write clean code. Make the user...

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How do you actually bond with your remote team? Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t) for you. We flew 26 remote teammates from 8 countries to Brazil. No laptops. Just food, games, and a lot of fun. 🎤 🇧🇷 It changed how we work, for real. Read more here: betaacid.co/blog/the-remote-… #remotework #teamculture #remotefirst

The Remote Reset: What a Week in Brazil Did for Our Team

Remote-first life can be amazing, but if you’ve lived it, you know it comes with a quiet kind of awkwardness. So we decided to change that. Not with better tools or tighter processes, but with...

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Lightweight 3D tools worth ten minutes each: betaacid.co/blog/five-zero-f…  #3DModeling #DesignTools #Spline #Unbound3D #Feather3D #Web3D

Five Zero-Friction 3D Tools You Can Master in an Afternoon

Blender— the free, open‑source, all‑in‑one 3D creation suite trusted by everyone from indie hobbyists to major VFX studios—remains the Swiss‑Army knife of computer graphics. It rolls modeling,...

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No EC2, no problem. We built a full ETL pipeline with just @awscloud Lambda + S3 + RDS. Event-driven, #Serverless, and surprisingly simple. 💡 Full walkthrough here 👇🏼 betaacid.co/blog/a-hands-on-…

A Hands-On Guide to Serverless ETL with AWS

When working on data-driven projects you often need to extract data from third-party sources, public APIs, or CSV files shared by other teams. However, before this data becomes useful, it typically...

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Ever told Siri, “Remind me to take out the trash when I get home”? That kind of automation was built on something called Intents. The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets LLMs go further betaacid.co/blog/siri-intent…
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Daniel Röhers Moura dives deep into the Error.isError proposal, a game-changer for reliable error detection across realms in @JavaScript. Read more: betaacid.co/blog/detecting-e…

Detecting Errors Reliably: A Deep Dive into the Error.isError Proposal

Building on that discussion of enhancing the developer experience, we now turn to Error.isError, another emerging TC39 proposal that addresses a different yet equally significant challenge. Error...

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Serverless platforms like @Azure Functions and @awscloud Lambda make it easier to build and scale without getting bogged down in infrastructure. But which one fits your needs best? betaacid.co/blog/exploring-a…

Exploring Azure Functions and AWS Lambda

As a developer working with cloud services, I've found that serverless computing makes my life much easier. Instead of managing servers, I can focus on writing code that matters. Let me share my...

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In our latest blog post we share some practical solutions to common @reactnative performance challenges, showing how to debug like a pro! betaacid.co/blog/react-nativ…

React Native Performance Solutions: Debug Like a Pro

Debugging: the art of being a detective in a crime scene where you're also the prime suspect. While traditional debugging tools help you find out why your perfectly written code (you’d think!)...

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