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How to Build a Custom PDF Text Extractor with Node.js and TypeScript

Extracting text from PDFs sounds simple until you try to do it. And it can be even more challenging for JavaScript developers, with various libraries to...

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UX

Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps

Designing for mental health means designing for vulnerability. Empathy-Centred UX becomes not a “nice to have” but a fundamental design requirement. Here’s a practical framework...

Kat Homan - smashingmagazine

Why your CEO acts like a clown: The tribal myths of leadership

When building and growing a company, you must be able to step away from numbers and KPIs and look at it from a human perspective — as a…Continue reading on UX...

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The blind spots of inclusive AI

AI has lowered real barriers for many users. But intelligence and inclusion do not always advance at the same pace.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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Design

Natural design, industry vibeshift, Jony Ive, bringing buttons back

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Practice notes on including citizens in the design process

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Other

How to Build a Production-Grade Distributed Chatroom in Go [Full Handbook]

If you've ever wondered how chat applications like Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp work behind the scenes, this tutorial will show you. You'll build a real-time...

Destiny Erhabor - freecodecamp

Why maintaining a codebase is so damn hard – with OhMyZSH creator Robby Russell [Podcast #207]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project Oh My ZSH. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zsh configuration...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Understanding Escape Analysis in Go – Explained with Example Code

In most languages, the stack and heap are two ways a program stores data in memory, managed by the language runtime. Each is optimized for different use...

Eti Ijeoma - freecodecamp

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Get behind me, AI writer

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Innovation is not magic; it’s technique

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