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Development

How to Add Dynamic Features to a Static Site Without a Server

Static sites are having a moment, and it makes sense. A folder of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files is fast to load, cheap to host, and very hard to break....

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

UX

Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie

When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural...

Alexey Kopytin - smashingmagazine

Mobile

How to Automate Flutter Releases with Fastlane and GitHub Actions for Firebase App Distribution, Google Play, TestFlight, and App Store Connect

Picture this: it's 4pm on a Friday, and your team has just merged the last feature for the sprint. But your product manager asks for a new build on TestFlight...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

Flutter Frontend Systems Design: How to Think Like a Senior Engineer in the AI Age

Systems design has always been treated as a backend problem. Ask a group of Flutter engineers what systems design means, and most will describe server...

Jesutoni Aderibigbe - freecodecamp

Other

Product Experimentation at Scale: How Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber run Causal Inference on LLM-Based AI Features

Causal inference for LLM-based AI features is no longer theoretical. Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber have published detailed engineering blog posts describing...

Rudrendu Paul - freecodecamp

Product Experimentation with Doubly Robust Estimation: When Both Your Models Are Wrong in LLM Applications

Your AI product shipped an agent-mode opt-in six months ago. You ran a propensity analysis, adjusted for engagement tier and query confidence, and reported a...

Rudrendu Paul - freecodecamp

How to Get Your Side Project Seen and Gain Paying Users

In 2022, I built a small micro-SaaS in my spare time and eventually sold it for a few thousand dollars. And today, with AI tools, it probably would've been...

George Field - freecodecamp

AI Evaluation Engineering: Build a Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Platform from Scratch [Full Handbook]

The gap between a demo that impresses and a system you can trust is measured in evals. I want to start with a story that's happening in hundreds of...

Ayobami Adejumo - freecodecamp