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UX

How getting good at your job can stop you getting better

Many experienced people plateau out of sight. Whether they keep growing depends partly on the problems they’re given to tackle.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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How to talk about a design that looks worse on paper

Why it took Microsoft 5 years to roll out an ‘obvious fix’Continue reading on UX Collective »

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Secret agent bot: accessibility matters for the agents even if you can’t see them

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AI is hollowing out the middle of design, leaving an hourglass behind

For fifteen years, the design process kept growing while the time left for making the product kept shrinking.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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On M.F. Husain and multiple meanings of the colour orange

The painting that introduced me to the power and purpose of artContinue reading on UX Collective »

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Design

What I told the CFO when he asked why design matters

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Taste is not a design methodology

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The synth everyone owned and few could program: a lesson for AI design

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Productivity

The State of AI and Software Engineering: Code is Cheaper but Expertise are More Valuable [Full Book]

A report on AI productivity, human capability, software economics, SaaS defensibility, and the future of engineering work. Between 2024 and 2026, the marginal...

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Other

How to Stop an AI Agent from Inventing Nigerian Postcodes

On 1 October 2026, Nigeria's postcode changed from six digits to an 11-character code that identifies a single building, such as EK-01-A03-FK-01. Language...

Kayode Adeniyi - freecodecamp

How to Keep a File for Minutes, Not Years, on Cloud Run

A print job, a one-time download, or a support attachment typically only needs to exist until someone finishes with it. But most backends still store it like...

Abhinay Gokul - freecodecamp

What to Do When Your Constants Are Someone Else's Law

A colleague once asked me why a number in my code had a comment three lines long. The number was 18. The comment said which rule it came from, which section...

Javeed Shaik - freecodecamp

How to Measure Conformance Between an Operational Specification and Its Execution

In my previous article, I explored executor independence: the idea that different execution mechanisms should be able to satisfy the same operational...

Hugo Teijiz - freecodecamp

How to Add Structured Data (JSON-LD) to a Next.js Site and Validate It

Structured data has always mattered to search engines. When a search engine reads your page, it sees HTML: a heading, some paragraphs, a date somewhere, a...

Saar Twito - freecodecamp

Nobody wants your AI app

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What are we willing to sacrifice for AI?

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