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Design

How to Design Gifting Features People Actually Use: Evidence from 58 Apps

American shoppers spent about $29 billion on gift cards over the 2025 holiday season, and 43 percent of them bought at least one. This put gift cards at the...

Anamol Rajbhandari - freecodecamp

Security

How to Catch Security Vulnerabilities in Code Before They Reach Your Pull Requests

Security reviews are most effective when developers receive feedback while the code is still fresh in their minds. Waiting until a pull request, CI build, or...

Umair Mirza - freecodecamp

Other

How to Write a Linux Kernel Module That Actually Builds

A Linux kernel module is a small piece of code that can be loaded into the running kernel without rebuilding the entire kernel. That sounds simple enough, but...

Chris Roy - freecodecamp

The 7 Essential Parts of Your Online Presence

Your online presence often gives potential employers, clients, partners, and recruiters their first impression of you. It's likely what they see before they...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

How to Build an Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Strategy for Your Development Team

A developer's laptop holds more sensitive data than most people realize: API keys, database credentials, staging environment secrets, and sometimes entire...

Alex Tray - freecodecamp

What's New in macOS 27 for Developers?

macOS 27 Golden Gate is here. Apple released it September 14, 2026, as a free upgrade for every Mac that can run it. I'll show you what actually changes for...

Daniel Kehoe - freecodecamp

How WebRTC Scales: Signaling, NAT Traversal, and the Mesh/SFU/MCU Tradeoff

Web Real-Time Communication (or WebRTC) is the open standard browsers use to send audio, video, and data straight to each other. There's no plugin or native...

Karan Pratap Singh - freecodecamp

How to Use Differential Testing During a Legacy Migration

The most dangerous moment in a legacy migration isn't necessarily when you start writing the new implementation. It's when the new implementation looks...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp

How to Implement Feature Flags for Safe and Gradual Rollouts

Feature flags are one of the most powerful tools in a team's deployment arsenal. They decouple deployment from release, meaning your CI/CD pipeline can push...

Abisoye Alli-Balogun - freecodecamp

Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries

Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for...

Victor Ayomipo - smashingmagazine