How to Optimize React
React makes it easy to build UIs, but building fast React apps is a different skill altogether. We just posted a hands-on, real-world React Performance...
Beau Carnes - freecodecamp
Development
Design
Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
[Penpot](https://penpot.app/?utm_source=SmashingMagazine&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=MCPserver) is experimenting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, which could lead to...
Daniel Schwarz - smashingmagazine
Productivity
How to Not Be Overwhelmed by AI – A Developer’s Guide to Using AI Tools Effectively
If you’re a developer, you’ll likely want to use AI to boost your productivity and help you save time on menial, repetitive tasks. And nearly every recruiter...
Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp
Other
How to Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents
Most AI tools require you to send your prompts and files to third-party servers. That’s a non-starter if your data includes private journals, research notes,...
Zoe Isabel Senón - freecodecamp
How to Build a Local-First CLI Financial Tracker with Rust [Full Handbook]
Most financial apps store your sensitive data on remote servers. This requires you to trust a company with your records and rely on their service staying...
Stephen Emmanuel - freecodecamp
How to Build an In-Memory Rate Limiter in Next.js
An API rate limiter is a server-side component of a web service that limits the number of API requests a client can make to an endpoint within a period of...
Orim Dominic Adah - freecodecamp
First developer job at age 38 with lawyer turned software engineer Zubin Pratap [Podcast #203]
Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as a corporate...
Beau Carnes - freecodecamp
How to Build and Deploy an AI Agent with LangChain, FastAPI, and Sevalla
Artificial intelligence is changing how we build software. Just a few years ago, writing code that could talk, decide, or use external data felt hard. Today,...
Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp
Qwen3 vs GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 Pro: Which Should You Use and When?
A few years back, choosing an AI model was simple. You pick the most capable one you can afford and move on. But today, that approach no longer works. Today,...
Oyedele Tioluwani - freecodecamp
How to Build Your First Shopify App: A Beginner’s Guide
Shopify powers more than a million online stores around the world. Many store features you see every day, such as discounts, bundles, and order fulfillment...
Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp
How Neural Networks Work – Explained Using the Straight Line Equation y = ax + b
Did you know that every data scientist who builds a complex neural network starts with a fundamental question, “How does the output change when the input...
Samyukta Hegde - freecodecamp
Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
Most developers spend their days fixing bugs, shipping features, and jumping into the next sprint without even thinking about it. After a while, you begin to ask yourself, “Is this...
Joas Pambou - smashingmagazine