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High-Frequency Real-Time Data in React: From Ring Buffers to OffscreenCanvas

React is great at many things. But if you've ever tried pushing thousands of data points per second through it, you'll quickly learn that React isn't a...

Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations

Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

What nobody tells you about AI ethics

Why making the human behind the machine visible changes what we call morally right, and its effect on the alignment of AI with human values.Continue reading on UX Collective »

It really wasn’t your fault, Coyote

ACME’s brutal design crit.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why don’t we download airport apps?

A billion passengers, millions of smartphones, and one stubborn question: do airports really need their own apps?Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to experiment when designing in a regulated field like Healthcare

You can’t vibe code your way through HIPAA violationsContinue reading on UX Collective »

Rethinking leadership, Judgment as bottleneck, Ethical UX for machines

Learn System Design for AI Agents: Build a Production-Ready Multi-Agent PR Reviewer

Building a basic AI demo with a single completion prompt and simple RAG pipeline is easy, but taking agentic systems into production requires robust system...

How to Work with Material and Cupertino Decoupling in Flutter [Full Handbook]

Earlier this year, I published Decoupling Material and Cupertino in Flutter, which covered what was then a preview feature: Flutter's plan to separate the...

The AI Agent Engineer's Guide: 60 Patterns for Building Autonomous Systems [Full Book]

This book is a capability-led field guide to the architectures that make modern AI agents actually work. It includes code, failure modes, and illustrative...

How to Build a Knowledge Graph with Python and Neo4j [Full Handbook]

Most of the data you work with is really about relationships. A customer belongs to an account. An incident affects a service. An engineer owns a repository....

The Hidden Risks Lurking in Your Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud computing has changed how organisations build, deploy, and scale applications. Businesses can launch new services in minutes, expand into new markets,...

Learn Data Structures and Algorithms Visually

Learning Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) often feels like facing an challenging wall of complex jargon, syntax, and heavy mathematics. But don't worry...

Building a Reinforcement Learning Framework from Scratch in Pure C

High-level machine learning libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow make training intelligent agents straightforward, but relying on modern frameworks often...

What to Do if Your Site Is About to Hit Vercel's Free Image Optimization Cap

I maintain my own website, and every now and then I upgrade the site to a new version. And I frequently experiment with different technologies and...

How to Build More Accessible Websites with WCAG 2.2

A website can look polished, work perfectly with a mouse, and still be difficult for some people to use. A form might use colour as the only indication that...

What The Matrix got wrong about AI (so far)

AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care

Is the future of software certain once AI is everywhere?

What The Matrix got right about AI

What is the purpose of software