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Development

How to Debug React State Updates Like a Pro (Without Polluting Production)

When you’re debugging a large React codebase, you might start to feel like a detective. Especially when you are looking for unexpected state changes,...

Kelechi Apugo - freecodecamp

UX

Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One

Combobox vs. Multi-Select vs. Listbox vs. Dual Listbox? How they are different, what purpose they serve, and how to choose the right one. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

UI

Why Your UI Won’t Update: Debugging Stale Data and Caching in React Apps

Your UI doesn’t “randomly” refuse to update. In most cases, it’s rendering cached data, which is data that was saved somewhere so the app doesn’t have to do...

Oluwadamisi Samuel - freecodecamp

Mobile

How to Use Monorepos in Flutter

As Flutter applications grow beyond a single mobile app, teams quickly encounter a new class of problems. Shared business logic begins to be copied across...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

Other

Harvard CS50 2026 – Free Computer Science University Course

Harvard University's CS50 is one of the most popular beginner computer science courses in the world. We just released the entire 25-hour CS50 course on the...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

OpenClaw Full Tutorial for Beginners

The AI landscape has shifted in 2026 from passive chatbots to proactive autonomous agents, with OpenClaw leading the charge as the most viral open-source...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How AOSP 16 Bluetooth Scanner Works: The Ultimate Guide

Ah, Bluetooth. The technology we all love to hate. It's like that one friend who's always just about to connect, but then... doesn't. For years, Android...

Nikheel Vishwas Savant - freecodecamp

How to Build and Deploy a LogAnalyzer Agent using LangChain

Modern systems generate huge volumes of logs. Application logs, server logs, and infrastructure logs often contain the first clues when something breaks. The...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

How TCP Turns Round Trip Time and Jitter into Packet Loss

Have you ever noticed that your network connection sometimes feels fast and then suddenly slow, even when nothing obvious has changed? A request that takes 20...

Syeda Maham Fahim - freecodecamp

CSS <code>@scope</code>: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions

Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new `@scope` rule finally give developers...

Blake Lundquist - smashingmagazine