Hey, I’m Dubem
I design and engineer fast, useful products.
I’m a design engineer who lives between the canvas and the codebase — shaping clear stories, then shipping them. I build small tools and products for creators, marketers, and dev teams, and write about frontend, Nuxt/Vue, and design systems.
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Tips for Building Better Applications with Coding Agents
A running list of practices that made coding agents genuinely more reliable for me, shifting the workflow from generate-and-hope to ship-and-verify. Covers proving the work, isolating sessions, wiring in production signals, and automating setup.
8 Wed Jul 2026
How to Use AI to Help Local Businesses Around You
You don't need to be a developer to make AI useful for the small businesses, friends, and family near you. Nine practical ways to help them get more customers and sell more, plus the one thing to warn them about.
7 Tue Jul 2026
How Claude Consumes Context: A Simple Mental Model
Why Claude Code follows some instructions and shrugs at others comes down to where they live and when they load. A mental model for CLAUDE.md priority and the order of influence in the context window.
7 Tue Jul 2026
How to Get Into Tech in 2026: A Simple, Honest Guide
AI changed the game, but the path in is still open. A practical guide to choosing a field, building two kinds of CV, and using a 2-skill framework to get hired and paid.
11 Thu Jun 2026
How to Reduce CSS Size in a Project (Without Breaking UI)
Practical ways to shrink CSS bundles: Tailwind discipline, choosing tree-shakeable UI libs, safe purging, avoiding accidental global CSS, and setting team/AI conventions.
28 Tue Apr 2026
Why I Created Memr: A Scripture Memorization App for the Tab-Hoarding Developer
I built Memr to solve a personal problem—remembering scripture. Here's why it lives in my Chrome tabs, my inbox, and soon my pocket.
16 Mon Feb 2026
10 Core Environment Variables for Simple SaaS Apps (Minimal Setup Guide)
The essential env vars for shipping SaaS on a budget—auth, database, storage, payments, AI, and mail. Plus how to keep setup cheap and secure.
2 Mon Feb 2026
7 Learning Patterns for Designers and Developers
There is no one way to learn, but knowing a couple will give you a boost.
3 Wed Apr 2019
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View on LinkedIn↗“Dubem has been exceptional at managing the tech side of work. He is so warm and humble about solving doubts and making complicated things look easy. The amount of talent Dubem possesses is incredible — his expertise on any tech stack makes you wonder how it's possible to tackle problems with code. I was honoured to be mentored by him during my time at Atlan.”
Sanchit Hajela
SWE-II @ G-P · Full Stack
“In my time working with Dubem, he showed his adaptability and flexibility across roles related to Frontend. Dubem was very instrumental to the growth of Jetseed (ex PettySave) using his vast knowledge in general design which translated to his expertise in Frontend. I highly recommend Dubem for any new project you might be thinking about.”
Abel Adejoh
Strategy & Innovation
“Dubem is very hard-working and knowledgeable. We worked together on a number of projects, and I found him to be a highly skilled and dedicated professional. His dynamic expertise in front-end development, design, and product management helped our company immensely. He's such an inspiration, and I feel proud to have worked with him — he'd be an asset to any company looking for a manager to scale.”
Taiwo Tolulope Oyewumi
Product Designer & Strategist
“I'm glad to have met Dubem and for the opportunities to collaborate with him several times. Dubem is a great visionary team leader, a motivator and a hardworking guy — one of the great creative designers and developers I've met so far, and he helps other designers grow. His deliveries are always top-notch!”
Ayomide Oluyemi
Motion & Visual Designer
“Dubem is a great team member and product manager. He is great at owning the product development and delivery process from start to finish. Any team he works on is lucky to have him!”
Oyinkansola Edem
Content Marketer & Writer
“Dubem is an excellent full-stack developer, designer and artist. I have learnt so much from working closely with him, and I genuinely believe anyone will be extremely fortunate to have him on their team.”
Isaac Olufemi
Business Development, Fintech