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How to Create Accessible Modals and Pop-ups Using HTML, CSS, and Minimal JavaScript

Creating pop-ups and modals on your site can be a complicated process. And it often requires a lot of boilerplate code to get started. But the real challenge...

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Redaction Tool Using JavaScript

PDF documents are frequently used to share invoices, contracts, reports, legal records, customer documents, financial statements, and internal business files....

How to Implement PayPal in a Microservice Architecture Using NestJS, gRPC, and Docker

In this tutorial, you'll build a production-ready PayPal payment service using NestJS microservices. Along the way, you'll learn how to isolate payment logic...

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered...

Lonely at a lower latency

Everything got faster, closer, more certain. The person inside stayed the same.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The brainstorm that couldn’t storm

On the small delay that makes a brainstorm actually stormContinue reading on UX Collective »

The weakest channel

Universality isn’t designed into things. It’s selected by surviving constraints — and often, people are the constraint.Continue reading on UX...

Design system contracts: the component lives in neither Figma nor code

The Observer Design Pattern Handbook: Event-Driven Architecture & Domain-Driven Design in Dart

Every application, at some point, has to deal with a fundamental challenge: something happens, and several other things need to react to it. A user logs in,...

AI just called design’s bluff

From vibe to specs: reclaiming the design process with SAID framework

How Neural Machine Translation Works: Build Your Own Translation App with React Native and QVAC

For the past 10 years, we've experienced a massive improvement in translation technologies. We went from robotic-like translations to systems that not only...

How to Evaluate AI Agents with an LLM-as-a-Judge Harness in Python

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to evaluate a local AI agent with a simple, repeatable evaluation harness. The harness runs the agent against a set of...

How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: A Complete Guide to Backstage, ArgoCD, and Crossplane

Every fast-growing engineering team eventually hits the same wall. A developer needs a new staging environment, so they file a ticket. The platform team...

Delegating taste, orchestration layer, AI workflows

The “mocked, then loved” AirPods effect

How to Kiss a Cannibal