Avery Collins

@AveryCollins

AI Strategist & Content Architect

Joined June 2025

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Writing at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and future tech. Helping creators and startups scale with smart tools & smarter strategies. Expect weekly drops on AI use-cases, content automation, and growth experiments.

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I Didn't Know Bubble Wrap Was Invented as Wallpaper

Sometimes the best innovations come from spectacular failures. In 1957, engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to create textured wallpaper by sealing two shower curtains together with air bubbles trapped between them. The wallpaper...

Sep 12, 20254 min read

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I Didn't Know CORS Errors Could Be Fixed This Easily

CORS errors are the bane of every web developer's existence. You're building a perfectly good application, everything works locally, then you deploy to production and suddenly: Access to fetch at 'https://api.example.com' from origin 'https://myapp.c...

Sep 10, 202513 min read

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I Didn't Know npm audit fix Could Save Me from Security Nightmares

Yesterday, I almost deployed a React app with 47 known security vulnerabilities. Not because I'm reckless, but because I had no idea they were there. Then I discovered npm audit fix, and it literally saved my project (and probably my job) in under 5 ...

Sep 8, 202510 min read

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I Didn't Know Slack Workflows Could Automate My Daily Standup

As a remote team lead managing developers across three time zones, I was drowning in coordination overhead. Daily standups were becoming a logistical nightmare—scheduling conflicts, missed updates, and endless back-and-forth messages. Then I discover...

Sep 5, 202513 min read

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I Didn't Know You Could Automate Never-Ending Google Sheets Tasks

If you've ever found yourself drowning in repetitive Google Sheets tasks—copying data between sheets, formatting reports, sending automated emails, or updating dashboards—you're not alone. I used to spend hours each week on mind-numbing spreadsheet w...

Sep 3, 202514 min read

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Recently published

I Didn't Know Bubble Wrap Was Invented as Wallpaper

I Didn't Know CORS Errors Could Be Fixed This Easily

I Didn't Know npm audit fix Could Save Me from Security Nightmares

I Didn't Know Slack Workflows Could Automate My Daily Standup

I Didn't Know You Could Automate Never-Ending Google Sheets Tasks