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Development

How to Build an AI Agent Harness from Scratch in TypeScript

Many AI agent tutorials start with a language model, give it a few tools, and run a loop until it produces an answer. That's enough to demonstrate tool...

Gabor Koos - freecodecamp

UX

Let AI have the average user: Why User Research should focus on bad days

Nn/g found that synthetic research captures common responses. The bad days are still up to you.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Kai Wong - cc/feed

Playing the sanshin without a sound

The slot machine and the checklist: a dilemma in feedback design.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Hiroshi Sato / 佐藤 仁 - cc/feed

UX designers are not designing interfaces, they design personalities

Bas Wallet - cc/feed

How to build a brand foundation with AI without losing your craft

Here is how to use Claude and a handful of guardrails to build a design system that developers respect and clients can actually ship.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Zeeshan Khalid - cc/feed

UI

How to Build a Website User Interface Faster Using AI Prompts

A website user interface (UI) used to take hours of writing HTML, CSS, and component code by hand. Now you can describe a page in plain words and let an AI...

Vaibhav Gupta - freecodecamp

Embracing Playful Imperfection With The CSS `random()` Function

Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how...

Brecht De Ruyte - smashingmagazine

Design

Human attention is the new old bottleneck. We have to design for it even more.

Patrick Neeman - cc/feed

Why design (still) matters, Taste is not a methodology, Borrowed slopes

Fabricio Teixeira - cc/feed

Design in the material you ship

Jon Sabutis - cc/feed

Other

How Neural Networks Work: Why Straight Lines Aren't Enough

A straight line equation is a good place to start understanding how a neural network works. It's what we explored in my previous article, How Neural Networks...

Samyukta Hegde - freecodecamp

How Wearables Can Adapt When Pregnancy Changes a User's Regular Baseline

Your smart ring or watch has many useful jobs, including learning your usual physiological patterns and showing you when they change. Resting heart rate,...

Shradha Puri - freecodecamp

How to Make Your Coding Agent Check Its Work in the Browser

I got tired of coding agents telling me the frontend work was done when nobody had opened the frontend. You've probably seen the routine. The agent changes...

timothy ogbemudia - freecodecamp

How to Build and Publish a Native Android App in 2026: From Jetpack Compose to the Google Play Store

Most Android tutorials stop at "it runs on the emulator." But getting an app from a blank project to a listing that real people can install from Google Play...

Nikheel Vishwas Savant - freecodecamp

How to Detect Operational Drift Before It Becomes an Incident

In my previous article, I explored operational conformance: how to evaluate whether observed evidence satisfies an operational specification. That gives us a...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp

AI doesn’t care about your job title

Patrick Neeman - cc/feed

What if AI sets us free?

Nicole Alexandra Michaelis - cc/feed

Beyond the Canvas

Nil Thyrion - cc/feed