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Development

How to Use Docker Compose for Production Workloads — with Profiles, Watch Mode, and GPU Support

There's a perception problem with Docker Compose. Ask a room full of platform engineers what they think of it, and you'll hear some version of: "It's great...

Balajee Asish Brahmandam - freecodecamp

UX

Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow

UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent. AI can now generate wireframes, prototypes, and even design systems in...

Carrie Webster - smashingmagazine

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

In the age of AI, “working” is a commodity while “winning” is the new mandate.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Elaine - cc/feed

The color statistic that’s been wrong for 80 years

The estimate everyone repeated and nobody verifiedContinue reading on UX Collective »

Kevin Muldoon - cc/feed

Design

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later

Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or...

Anders Toxboe - smashingmagazine

You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists

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Other

How to Build a Production-Ready Voice Agent Architecture with WebRTC

In this tutorial, you'll build a production-ready voice agent architecture: a browser client that streams audio over WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication), a...

Nataraj Sundar - freecodecamp

How to Center Any Element in CSS: 7 Methods That Always Work

Centering elements in CSS often seems straightforward at first, but it quickly becomes confusing once you start building real layouts. A property like...

Fanny Nyayic - freecodecamp

How Does Kubernetes Self-Healing Work? Understand Self-Healing By Breaking a Real Cluster

I have noticed that many engineers who run Kubernetes in production have never actually watched it heal itself. They know it does. They have read the docs....

Osomudeya Zudonu - freecodecamp

There are 2 kinds of devs. One of them is screwed. Justin Searls interview [Podcast #210]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He's a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that's still going – even after he figured...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Deploy AI-Generated Code on a PaaS Platform

Vibe coding is about momentum. You open your editor, prompt an AI, stitch pieces together, and suddenly you have something that works. Maybe it’s messy. Maybe...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists

Fabricio Teixeira - cc/feed

The deceptive side of robot cuteness

Catherine Chu - cc/feed

Stairways to nowhere: why AI makes blueprints matter more than ever

Scott Hines - cc/feed

The last interface

Heenesh Patel - cc/feed