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Development

How to Build an AI Agent Harness from Scratch in TypeScript

Many AI agent tutorials start with a language model, give it a few tools, and run a loop until it produces an answer. That's enough to demonstrate tool...

Gabor Koos - freecodecamp

UI

How to Build a Website User Interface Faster Using AI Prompts

A website user interface (UI) used to take hours of writing HTML, CSS, and component code by hand. Now you can describe a page in plain words and let an AI...

Vaibhav Gupta - freecodecamp

Embracing Playful Imperfection With The CSS `random()` Function

Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how...

Brecht De Ruyte - smashingmagazine

Other

How Neural Networks Work: Why Straight Lines Aren't Enough

A straight line equation is a good place to start understanding how a neural network works. It's what we explored in my previous article, How Neural Networks...

Samyukta Hegde - freecodecamp

How Wearables Can Adapt When Pregnancy Changes a User's Regular Baseline

Your smart ring or watch has many useful jobs, including learning your usual physiological patterns and showing you when they change. Resting heart rate,...

Shradha Puri - freecodecamp

How to Make Your Coding Agent Check Its Work in the Browser

I got tired of coding agents telling me the frontend work was done when nobody had opened the frontend. You've probably seen the routine. The agent changes...

timothy ogbemudia - freecodecamp

How to Build and Publish a Native Android App in 2026: From Jetpack Compose to the Google Play Store

Most Android tutorials stop at "it runs on the emulator." But getting an app from a blank project to a listing that real people can install from Google Play...

Nikheel Vishwas Savant - freecodecamp

How to Detect Operational Drift Before It Becomes an Incident

In my previous article, I explored operational conformance: how to evaluate whether observed evidence satisfies an operational specification. That gives us a...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp