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How to Build a Barcode Generator Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step)

If you’ve ever worked on something like an inventory system, billing dashboard, or even a small internal tool, chances are you’ve needed to generate barcodes...

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

Who are we really designing for?

A guide to the conflicting needs of the individual User and the collective Customer.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

You’re not supposed to get it right

I left the Google design challenge convinced I had failed — and I passed. This is what actually matters in these interviews.Continue reading on UX Collective »

“Vibe coding” is accelerating the erosion of design authority

How to Build Reusable Architecture for Large Next.js Applications

Every Next.js project starts the same way: you run npx create-next-app, write a few pages, maybe add an API route or two, and things feel clean. Then the...

How to Build and Deploy a Fitness Tracker Using Python Django and PythonAnywhere - A Beginner Friendly Guide

If you've learned some Python basics but still feel stuck when it comes to building something real, you're not alone. Many beginners go through tutorials,...

Lessons from 15,031 hours of coding live on Twitch with Chris Griffing [Podcast #214]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a "snowboard bum"...

Automate Your Sales Pipeline with Claude and Obsidian

For many software engineers and SaaS founders, writing code is the easy part. But the marketing and sales grind feels like an uphill battle. If you’d rather...

Data models: the shared language your AI and team are both missing

We didn’t mean to build this- engagement at any cost

Designers: We are perpetuating our own burnout problem

Falling apples and crumbling algos

Do less with AI