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Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations

Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

Johan Grobler - smashingmagazine

Design

Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern: Decoupling Complex Business Rules, One Handler at a Time

Every system, at some point, ends up with a function that nobody wants to touch. It starts small: a simple validation check, an if statement here, another...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

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How to Host Odoo: Self-Hosted vs Managed Hosting

Odoo is an open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that helps businesses manage operations such as sales, customer relationship management...

Abdul Talha - freecodecamp

How to Understand a Legacy Codebase Using AI Before Changing it

The first thing many engineers want to do when they inherit a legacy codebase is change it. And I understand the impulse. You open a class that's 1,500 lines...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp

Kubernetes Networking Explained: From ClusterIP to Cilium Service Mesh

Here's something that most Kubernetes tutorials won't tell you: most engineers can run kubectl expose. Fewer than 10% understand what happens when they do....

Ayobami Adejumo - freecodecamp

How Sensors Collect, Process, and Track Data in Wearable Devices

A smartwatch can tell you that your heart rate is 78 beats per minute, that you've walked 6,421 steps, or that you slept for 7 hours last night. All of these...

Reetain Raina - freecodecamp

The Sanitizers Handbook: Memory, Initialization, and Races

Some of the most dangerous native failures are produced by programs that appear to be working correctly. The cryptographic operation returns the right...

Hamdaan Ali - freecodecamp

Why Two Emotions Can Produce the Exact Same Biometric Signal

A few months ago I was sitting in a convention center about to deliver a keynote at an event, watching my Oura Ring throw up the same heart rate pattern it...

Shradha Puri - freecodecamp

The AI Agent Engineer's Guide: 60 Patterns for Building Autonomous Systems [Full Book]

This book is a capability-led field guide to the architectures that make modern AI agents actually work. It includes code, failure modes, and illustrative...

Vahe Aslanyan - freecodecamp

How to Build a Knowledge Graph with Python and Neo4j [Full Handbook]

Most of the data you work with is really about relationships. A customer belongs to an account. An incident affects a service. An engineer owns a repository....

RONI DAS - freecodecamp

The Hidden Risks Lurking in Your Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud computing has changed how organisations build, deploy, and scale applications. Businesses can launch new services in minutes, expand into new markets,...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp