Ship Happens
What works, what breaks, what ships
Written by the VibedSites team. Plain language, working methods, and the habits that separate a demo from something people can use. Every article is open for discussion.
NoobBeginner: start hereNovember 6, 2026 · 7 min read
How to Choose a Domain Name That People Actually Type
A great domain is one a stranger can hear once and type correctly. Here is how to pick a name that is short, sayable and safe, how to check it before you buy, and how to hook it up to your site.
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KETBDKnows Enough to be DangerousSeptember 18, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Prompt a Secure Site (and Actually Use Your Platform's Security Checks)
AI will happily build you a site that leaks. Not because it is careless, but because you never asked it not to. Here are the sentences that make security part of the build, and how to run the security checks your platform already gives you.
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NoobBeginner: start hereSeptember 12, 2026 · 10 min read
Why Every AI Site Looks the Same (and How Yours Can Stand Out)
Purple gradients, the same three fonts, the same rounded cards. AI builders did not break your taste, they just handed you the average. Here is why it happens and exactly how to prompt your way out of it.
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NoobBeginner: start hereSeptember 10, 2026 · 17 min read
Speak the Language of Code (and AI)
A plain-English glossary for people who have never coded. Every term is explained from zero and paired with a sentence you can copy straight into a prompt, with live examples for the visual ones.
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EngineerExpert: you own the consequencesSeptember 8, 2026 · 11 min read
Shipping safely when AI writes the code
When a model writes the code, your job moves from typing to reviewing. These are the review points that actually protect users: secrets, authorization at the point of the side effect, validation at the boundary, database rules, migrations, and a rollback you have practised.
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KETBDKnows Enough to be DangerousSeptember 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Prompts that produce working software
A prompt that produces working software is a small specification: goal, context, constraints, output shape, and a definition of done. Here are the five parts, the templates, the anti-patterns, and a before and after rewrite.
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NoobBeginner: start hereAugust 27, 2026 · 9 min read
What vibe coding actually is, and how to do it well
Vibe coding is not luck and it is not magic. It is a loop: describe a small outcome, let the model write it, run it, read what came back, and correct it. Here is that loop in detail, with the habits that make it produce software people can actually use.
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