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How to Implement Role-Based Access Control in a Node.js REST API with JWT

The first time I built an API without thinking about roles, I gave every logged-in user the same access. It worked fine until a regular user accidentally hit...

Level Up Your React Skills with Typescript

We've just released a new full-length tutorial on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to use TypeScript with React. If you’ve been...

Why Does the Internet Keep Breaking? A Deep Dive into AWS US-East-1

We’ve been experimenting with a new style of content on the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel: the video essay. These projects allow us to step back from the code...

DesignOps in the age of AI: when governance becomes orchestration

DesignOps is shifting from governing human-led process to orchestrating human and AI technology towards ethical, meaningful outcomes.Continue reading on UX Collective »

How any designer can build a more open design culture at work

You don’t need a “leader” title to build psychological safety at work.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas

We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite...

Designing in regulated industries

The 15-minute AI stress test every designer can run

How to Fix App Jank: A Practical Guide to Profiling Flutter Apps with DevTools

Flutter makes it fast to build beautiful UIs. That speed is one of the framework's greatest strengths, but it also creates a subtle problem: performance...

Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI

Healthcare data is among the most sensitive data there is. Sending it to a cloud AI service is often not an option because of privacy requirements, regulatory...

How MCP Is Changing WordPress Development

For years, the promise of AI-assisted development felt just out of reach for WordPress developers. You could ask a chatbot to generate a block of PHP, paste...

How to Build an MCP Server with FastMCP for Your Local AI Agent

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build an MCP server with FastMCP, connect your local AI agent to use tools from the local MCP server that you built,...

AI Paper Review: Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

When Chain-of-Thought Prompting was introduced, it showed that large language models could solve many difficult reasoning problems simply by thinking step by...

How to Implement Zero-Trust Workload Identity in Kubernetes with SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Cilium

Your network policy says: allow traffic from 10.0.1.45. Yesterday, 10.0.1.45 was your payment service. Today, after a rolling deployment, it's your logging...

How to Build Your Own Local AI Agent with Tool Calling and Memory

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a local AI agent with tool calling and short-term memory using LangChain v1, Ollama, Qwen, and Python. The agent...

The revolution was the easy part

Losing the spark in their eyes

The crisis of the what

What the Lean Startup still teaches us about generative AI

Should you really aim to be the best?

The promotion that didn’t take