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Development

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Reverse Tool Using JavaScript

PDF files are often created by combining scans, exporting documents from different systems, or processing large batches of pages. In many cases, the final PDF...

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

UI

How to Build an Animated Badge Component with shadcn/ui

Badges are everywhere in modern web apps. You see them on notification counters, status labels, and feature tags. Most of them are static, though. They sit...

Vaibhav Gupta - freecodecamp

Mobile

How to Use Dart Dot Shorthands: A Handbook for Devs

If you've written Flutter code for more than a month, you've likely written this line hundreds of times: mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

How to Structure Large Flutter Applications for Scalable and Maintainable Growth

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

Ethiel ADIASSA - freecodecamp

Security

How I Became Brazil's First Visually Impaired Cybersecurity Graduate — and Changed Vulnerability Research

I was born prematurely at six months. My mother's placenta detached before delivery, and she essentially "gave birth" before I came out. Two days after my...

Juan Mathews Rebello Santos - freecodecamp

How to Build Secure-by-Default Node.js APIs

Most security problems I've shipped in my career weren't exotic. They weren't nation-state attacks or clever zero-days. They were boring. A missing limit...

Devlin Duldulao - freecodecamp

Other

How to Stop Your AI Coding Agent from Writing Outdated Code with Modern Web Guidance

AI coding agents can save developers a lot of time – that is, until you open the output and realize they've written code like it's 2019. Ask an agent to build...

Ophy Boamah - freecodecamp

How to Insert Images in Google Sheets

Google Sheets is widely used for tracking data, managing inventories, building product catalogs, and creating dashboards. In many of these use cases, adding...

Vikram Aruchamy - freecodecamp

How to Build Production-Grade AI Guardrails for Enterprise Applications: A Practical Guide

Large Language Models have fundamentally changed how we build internal business applications. They allow developers to create intelligent software that can...

Chidiebere Njoku - freecodecamp

How to Find Stock-Specific Moves in the S&P 500 with Python

On June 12, 2026, SPY closed up 0.54%. EchoStar (SATS) dropped 11%. Lennar (LEN) dropped 4.9%. Most of the other 500 stocks in the index barely moved beyond...

Nikhil Adithyan - freecodecamp