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Development

What Claude Code Can and Can't Do with Full Access Inside a Docker Sandbox

Claude Code can do more than suggest a fix. It can edit files, install dependencies, run tests, and start your application. But letting it finish a task on...

Chirag Agrawal - freecodecamp

UI

A Practical Guide To Naming Things

A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more [useful...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

Security

The Engineering Anatomy of API Vulnerabilities: A Deep Dive into the OWASP API Security Top 10

Most security articles read like threat reports. They describe vulnerabilities from the outside looking in: what an attacker does, what the impact is, and how...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

Other

Build and Train a 25M Parameter LLM From Scratch on Your CPU

You don't need a massive GPU cluster to learn how modern frontier AI works. In our new video on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel, you will build,...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Encrypt PII in Data Pipelines While Keeping It Searchable

At Intuit, my team built a data pipeline that processed TurboTax e-filing data. This data needed to be made available for dashboards, analytics, and other...

Lakshmi Mahabaleshwara - freecodecamp

API Authentication & Authorization: An Engineering Deep Dive into Mechanisms, Trade-offs, and Failure Modes

Every API has some form of authentication. But having authentication and getting it right are two completely different things. I've reviewed production...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

How to Break the AI Coding Agent Fix Loop

You've likely seen this movie before: something breaks in an app you built with an AI coding agent. You ask the agent to fix it. It "fixes" it. But the bug is...

Amir Gabay - freecodecamp

How to Use NestJS Observe: An Observability Handbook for Devs

Observability isn't a new problem, and NestJS is certainly not the first ecosystem to tackle it. But NestJS Observe is interesting because it asks a more...

Pacifique Linjanja - freecodecamp

How AI Is Changing Email Deliverability: A Technical Guide to Sender Reputation and Inbox Placement

Sending an email doesn't always mean it will reach the recipient's inbox. Sometimes, an email is sent successfully by an application but ends up in the spam...

Reetain Raina - freecodecamp