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Development

How to Navigate Microservices as a Frontend Engineer

Most frontend engineers don't choose microservices. They inherit them. One day you're fetching data from a single API, and the next you're stitching together...

Abisoye Alli-Balogun - freecodecamp

How to Compress PDF Files in the Browser Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step)

PDF files are everywhere. From invoices and reports to résumés and documents, they’re one of the most common file formats we deal with. But there’s a common...

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

UI

Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion...

Joas Pambou - smashingmagazine

Other

How to Unblock Your AI PR Review Bottleneck: A Tech Lead’s Guide to Building a Codebase-Aware Reviewer

A few months ago, I was reviewing a pull request that added three new API endpoints. The diff was clean. Tests passed. The agent that generated it had even...

Qudrat Ullah - freecodecamp

Stanford's youngest instructor talks InfoSec, AI, and catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez interview [Podcast #217]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire university. She...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp