Beta Acid
@betaacid.bsky.social
A NYC-based digital agency specializing in building new software products with a lean, startup-like approach.
🔐 Security shouldn’t be an afterthought.
Check out our quick guide to bringing DevSecOps into your CI/CD workflow, from shift-left practices to blocking deployments and examples using GitHub Actions, Snyk, and Trivy.
#DevSecOps #CICD #SoftwareSecurity #DevOps
Check out our quick guide to bringing DevSecOps into your CI/CD workflow, from shift-left practices to blocking deployments and examples using GitHub Actions, Snyk, and Trivy.
#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 g...
betaacid.co
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🔐 Security shouldn’t be an afterthought.
Check out our quick guide to bringing DevSecOps into your CI/CD workflow, from shift-left practices to blocking deployments and examples using GitHub Actions, Snyk, and Trivy.
#DevSecOps #CICD #SoftwareSecurity #DevOps
Check out our quick guide to bringing DevSecOps into your CI/CD workflow, from shift-left practices to blocking deployments and examples using GitHub Actions, Snyk, and Trivy.
#DevSecOps #CICD #SoftwareSecurity #DevOps
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:
#QualityAssurance #AITesting #Automation #Playwright #SoftwareTesting
We ran a real-world experiment with Playwright MCP to find out:
#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 lik...
betaacid.co
October 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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:
#QualityAssurance #AITesting #Automation #Playwright #SoftwareTesting
We ran a real-world experiment with Playwright MCP to find out:
#QualityAssurance #AITesting #Automation #Playwright #SoftwareTesting
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.
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.
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 attentio...
betaacid.co
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
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.
Stop copy-pasting infra.
Here’s how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct that locks in standards. We use a static site setup with S3 + CloudFront as the example — showing every step so you can make your own. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/avoid-r...
Here’s how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct that locks in standards. We use a static site setup with S3 + CloudFront as the example — showing every step so you can make your own. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/avoid-r...
Avoid Repetition and Enforce Standards with Custom CDK Constructs in TypeScript
Following on from our deep dive into managing Lambdas with AWS CDK, we talked about how CDK lets you define cloud infrastructure using actual code, not YAML. After shipping a few services, you’ll noti...
betaacid.co
August 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Stop copy-pasting infra.
Here’s how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct that locks in standards. We use a static site setup with S3 + CloudFront as the example — showing every step so you can make your own. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/avoid-r...
Here’s how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct that locks in standards. We use a static site setup with S3 + CloudFront as the example — showing every step so you can make your own. 👉 betaacid.co/blog/avoid-r...
Python devs: there’s a new tool in town.
It replaces pip, poetry, pyenv, and more, with one lightning-fast CLI. We tried it. It’s legit. Read our breakdown 👉 betaacid.co/blog/uv-a-po...
It replaces pip, poetry, pyenv, and more, with one lightning-fast CLI. We tried it. It’s legit. Read our breakdown 👉 betaacid.co/blog/uv-a-po...
UV: A powerful, reliable and retro-compatible package manager for Python
For many Python projects, especially those using pip and requirements.txt, the lack of a standardized lockfile is a major challenge. Without a lockfile, it becomes difficult to pin exact dependency ve...
betaacid.co
July 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Python devs: there’s a new tool in town.
It replaces pip, poetry, pyenv, and more, with one lightning-fast CLI. We tried it. It’s legit. Read our breakdown 👉 betaacid.co/blog/uv-a-po...
It replaces pip, poetry, pyenv, and more, with one lightning-fast CLI. We tried it. It’s legit. Read our breakdown 👉 betaacid.co/blog/uv-a-po...
Ever wish your frontend and backend just… agreed on types?
We tried tRPC. No contracts, no generators. Just synced.
The good, the bad, and the gotchas → betaacid.co/blog/keeping...
We tried tRPC. No contracts, no generators. Just synced.
The good, the bad, and the gotchas → betaacid.co/blog/keeping...
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 again...
betaacid.co
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ever wish your frontend and backend just… agreed on types?
We tried tRPC. No contracts, no generators. Just synced.
The good, the bad, and the gotchas → betaacid.co/blog/keeping...
We tried tRPC. No contracts, no generators. Just synced.
The good, the bad, and the gotchas → betaacid.co/blog/keeping...
Are you kicking off a new software build or reworking an old platform?
We just shared how we approach both, from lean MVPs to legacy code full of hidden landmines.
👉 See more here: betaacid.co/blog/rebuild...
#SoftwareProjects #EngineeringPlaybook #RebuildVsNewBuild
We just shared how we approach both, from lean MVPs to legacy code full of hidden landmines.
👉 See more here: betaacid.co/blog/rebuild...
#SoftwareProjects #EngineeringPlaybook #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 interfac...
betaacid.co
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Are you kicking off a new software build or reworking an old platform?
We just shared how we approach both, from lean MVPs to legacy code full of hidden landmines.
👉 See more here: betaacid.co/blog/rebuild...
#SoftwareProjects #EngineeringPlaybook #RebuildVsNewBuild
We just shared how we approach both, from lean MVPs to legacy code full of hidden landmines.
👉 See more here: betaacid.co/blog/rebuild...
#SoftwareProjects #EngineeringPlaybook #RebuildVsNewBuild
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-rem...
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-rem...
The Remote Reset: What a Week in Brazil Did for Our Team
What happens when you fly 26 teammates from eight countries into Brazil for five days of fun, food, and friendship? You get the kind of week you’ll always remember, and a reminder that the best kind ...
betaacid.co
May 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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-rem...
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-rem...
Lightweight 3D tools worth ten minutes each: betaacid.co/blog/five-ze...
#3DModeling #DesignTools #Spline #Unbound3D #Feather3D #Web3D
#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, sculpti...
betaacid.co
May 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lightweight 3D tools worth ten minutes each: betaacid.co/blog/five-ze...
#3DModeling #DesignTools #Spline #Unbound3D #Feather3D #Web3D
#3DModeling #DesignTools #Spline #Unbound3D #Feather3D #Web3D
No EC2, no problem. We built a full ETL pipeline with just @awscloud.bsky.social Lambda + S3 + RDS. Event-driven, serverless, and surprisingly simple.
💡Full walkthrough here: betaacid.co/blog/a-hands...
💡Full walkthrough here: betaacid.co/blog/a-hands...
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 re...
betaacid.co
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
No EC2, no problem. We built a full ETL pipeline with just @awscloud.bsky.social Lambda + S3 + RDS. Event-driven, serverless, and surprisingly simple.
💡Full walkthrough here: betaacid.co/blog/a-hands...
💡Full walkthrough here: betaacid.co/blog/a-hands...
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
That kind of automation was built on something called Intents.
The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets LLMs go further
Siri Intents Walked So Model Context Protocol Could Run
Back in 2016, Apple introduced Siri Intents—a framework that allowed developers to expose their app’s functionality to Siri. If you’ve ever asked your iPhone to “send a message,” “order coffee,” or “s...
betaacid.co
April 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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
That kind of automation was built on something called Intents.
The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets LLMs go further
Daniel Röhers Moura dives deep into the Error.isError proposal, a game-changer for reliable error detection across realms in @javascriptjs.bsky.social. Read more: betaacid.co/blog/detecti...
Beta Acid - A Brooklyn Based Custom Software Development Agency - Beta Acid
Beta Acid is a full service software development agency based in Brooklyn and Barcelona.
betaacid.co
April 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Daniel Röhers Moura dives deep into the Error.isError proposal, a game-changer for reliable error detection across realms in @javascriptjs.bsky.social. Read more: betaacid.co/blog/detecti...
Serverless platforms like Azure Functions and @awscloud.bsky.social Lambda make it easier to build and scale without getting bogged down in infrastructure. But which one fits your needs best? betaacid.co/blog/explori...
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 exper...
betaacid.co
March 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Serverless platforms like Azure Functions and @awscloud.bsky.social Lambda make it easier to build and scale without getting bogged down in infrastructure. But which one fits your needs best? betaacid.co/blog/explori...
In our latest blog post we share some practical solutions to common @reactnative.dev.web.brid.gy performance challenges, showing how to debug like a pro!
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!) decided...
betaacid.co
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In our latest blog post we share some practical solutions to common @reactnative.dev.web.brid.gy performance challenges, showing how to debug like a pro!
For the second installment of our @javascriptjs.bsky.social series, we take a deep dive into the JS Atomics.pause proposal.
Boosting Multithreaded Performance with Atomics.pause in JavaScript
Now, let's examine another exciting development: the Atomics.pause proposal—a feature designed to optimize concurrent and multithreaded JavaScript applications.
betaacid.co
January 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
For the second installment of our @javascriptjs.bsky.social series, we take a deep dive into the JS Atomics.pause proposal.
Always Be Delivering: Ryan’s Recipe for Beta Acid's Magic (And Yes, It’s as Bold as It Sounds) 🏃♂️
#ABDelivery #GetShitDone #StartupStyle
#ABDelivery #GetShitDone #StartupStyle
Always Be Delivering
Like Alec Baldwin’s famous mantra in Glengarry Glen Ross, we have a phrase we live by: Always Be Delivering. Everything that everyone does at Beta Acid should be in support of delivering a tangible pr...
betaacid.co
January 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Always Be Delivering: Ryan’s Recipe for Beta Acid's Magic (And Yes, It’s as Bold as It Sounds) 🏃♂️
#ABDelivery #GetShitDone #StartupStyle
#ABDelivery #GetShitDone #StartupStyle
Learn more about new and significant improvements in @nextjs.org routing, server components, caching behavior, and performance optimizations.
Next.js 15: A Deep Dive into Modern Web Development
Choosing the right web framework can significantly impact your project's success. Next.js has emerged as a powerhouse in the React ecosystem, offering a robust solution for building modern web applica...
betaacid.co
December 16, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Learn more about new and significant improvements in @nextjs.org routing, server components, caching behavior, and performance optimizations.
We experimented with @anthropic.com 's new "Computer Use" tool, which allows the AI to take actions directly on your computer (think move the mouse, etc). We wanted to test to see if we could automate some of our QA work.
Sound exciting, or interesting, or creepy?
Sound exciting, or interesting, or creepy?
Experimenting with Anthropic's Computer use for QA
Anthropic recently introduced their “Computer Use” tool, enabling developers to integrate their AI models to execute tasks on a computer. As they describe it in their blog post
betaacid.co
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 PM
We experimented with @anthropic.com 's new "Computer Use" tool, which allows the AI to take actions directly on your computer (think move the mouse, etc). We wanted to test to see if we could automate some of our QA work.
Sound exciting, or interesting, or creepy?
Sound exciting, or interesting, or creepy?