31 Days of Vibe Coding

I built an entire website entirely with AI. collectyourcards.com lets users track and manage their sports card collections without all of the work. 900,000+ sports cards (and growing). Universal search. Achievement system. Social features. Production deployment. All of it.

This series teaches you how to write real software with artificial intelligence.
No theory. No hype. Just the tactics that actually worked.

What You’ll Learn

Days 1-11: The Fundamentals The non-negotiable principles that separate confident vibe coding from hope-driven development.

Days 12-29: Tactics & Best Practices Prompt templates, component libraries, context management, breaking features into phases, and more.

Day 30: Tool Landscape Real comparison of Claude Code, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor (and many other agents that don’t start with C) across capabilities, cost, and convenience.

Day 31: Send-Off Summary, encouragement, and what to do next.

Start Here

Begin with Day 1: What Is Vibe Coding? to understand what this is all about and see proof it works.

Then follow the fundamentals, one per day. Each article is a deep look at best practices in AI-assisted software development with real examples from building collectyourcards.com.

About This Series

Every article includes:

About The Author

Jeff Blankenburg spent the early part of his career in digital advertising, building websites for Burton Snowboards, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He also spent 9 years at Microsoft, primarily as an evangelist for any new developer technology he could get his hands on. He followed his passion to Amazon, where he was the Chief Technical Evangelist for Alexa for the following 7 years.

Today, he is the Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, helping developers use AI to make cloud native apps easier to build and maintain. Jeff has also spoken at hundreds of conferences all over the world, including London, Munich, India, Tokyo, Sydney, and New York, covering topics ranging from software development technologies to soft skill techniques. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference in Columbus, Ohio.