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Productivity

The State of AI and Software Engineering: Code is Cheaper but Expertise are More Valuable [Full Book]

A report on AI productivity, human capability, software economics, SaaS defensibility, and the future of engineering work. Between 2024 and 2026, the marginal...

Vahe Aslanyan - freecodecamp

Security

Secure by Design: How to Engineer Security into Architecture Before Writing Any Code

There's a conversation that happens in most engineering teams,maybe usually too late. Think of this, a feature ships to production. A security review happens...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

Other

How to Give an AI Agent Safe Access to an Internal API with MCP

Our on-call team keeps a small internal notes API. The web app in front of it shows who's holding the pager, which days are frozen for deploys, and where the...

Harish Gaggar - freecodecamp

How to Build Disaster Simulations on a Real Map: Animated Canvas Layers and Collapsing 3D Buildings with Mapbox GL JS and Three.js

At some point, a map project needs more than markers and polygons. You want something to happen on the map: water moving up a street, smoke drifting with the...

Alex Oliinyk - freecodecamp

How to Stop an AI Agent from Inventing Nigerian Postcodes

On 1 October 2026, Nigeria's postcode changed from six digits to an 11-character code that identifies a single building, such as EK-01-A03-FK-01. Language...

Kayode Adeniyi - freecodecamp

How to Keep a File for Minutes, Not Years, on Cloud Run

A print job, a one-time download, or a support attachment typically only needs to exist until someone finishes with it. But most backends still store it like...

Abhinay Gokul - freecodecamp

What to Do When Your Constants Are Someone Else's Law

A colleague once asked me why a number in my code had a comment three lines long. The number was 18. The comment said which rule it came from, which section...

Javeed Shaik - freecodecamp

How to Measure Conformance Between an Operational Specification and Its Execution

In my previous article, I explored executor independence: the idea that different execution mechanisms should be able to satisfy the same operational...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp

How to Add Structured Data (JSON-LD) to a Next.js Site and Validate It

Structured data has always mattered to search engines. When a search engine reads your page, it sees HTML: a heading, some paragraphs, a date somewhere, a...

Saar Twito - freecodecamp