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Development

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Color Overlay Tool Using JavaScript

Sometimes you don't want to change the actual content of a PDF. You simply want to add a colored layer over part or all of the document. This can be useful...

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

How to Build an AI Agent with Per-User OAuth Access [Full Handbook]

When your AI agent serves more than one person, every tool call must answer: who's the agent acting for? Let's learn how to solve this by building an AI agent...

Saif Ali Shaik - freecodecamp

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Filter Studio with JavaScript

PDF editing isn't limited to adding signatures or merging documents. Sometimes you simply want to improve the appearance of a PDF by increasing brightness,...

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

UX

New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling

New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products. Brought to you by Design Patterns For...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie

When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural...

Alexey Kopytin - smashingmagazine

Design

Python for Mechanical Engineering

Whether you're designing robotics, analyzing fluid dynamics (CFD), or working through complex engineering data, learning to code is one of the most effective...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Mobile

How to Automate Flutter Releases with Fastlane and GitHub Actions for Firebase App Distribution, Google Play, TestFlight, and App Store Connect

Picture this: it's 4pm on a Friday, and your team has just merged the last feature for the sprint. But your product manager asks for a new build on TestFlight...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

Other

Master Low-Level Graphics in C: Build a Software Renderer from Scratch

When learning C, it's easy to get stuck building text-based terminal applications that simply ask for user input and print a result back out. While those are...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

AI Paper Review: Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

Today, diffusion models have become one of the most influential families of generative AI systems. They power applications ranging from image synthesis and...

Mohammed Fahd Abrah - freecodecamp

Product Experimentation at Scale: How Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber run Causal Inference on LLM-Based AI Features

Causal inference for LLM-based AI features is no longer theoretical. Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber have published detailed engineering blog posts describing...

Rudrendu Paul - freecodecamp

Product Experimentation with Doubly Robust Estimation: When Both Your Models Are Wrong in LLM Applications

Your AI product shipped an agent-mode opt-in six months ago. You ran a propensity analysis, adjusted for engagement tier and query confidence, and reported a...

Rudrendu Paul - freecodecamp

How to Get Your Side Project Seen and Gain Paying Users

In 2022, I built a small micro-SaaS in my spare time and eventually sold it for a few thousand dollars. And today, with AI tools, it probably would've been...

George Field - freecodecamp