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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...

The Modern React Data Fetching Handbook: Suspense, use(), and ErrorBoundary Explained

Most React developers don’t break the data fetching process all at once. It usually degrades gradually, slowly. Traditionally, you may have used a useEffect...

Build a Production-Ready Pipeline with Docker, CI/CD & Hostinger

Learn to take a full-stack React, Go, and MongoDB application from local development to a fully containerized production environment. We just posted a full...

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...

Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability

Autonomy is an output of a technical system. Trustworthiness is an output of a design process. Here are concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational...

How to start writing (like it’s easy)

And how to do hard things in general — based on dopamine addiction studies and the pleasure-pain principle.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Embrace the mess: how to tell honest UX stories that help you grow

How trying to hide the mess of design projects caps your careerContinue reading on UX Collective »

Can you run out of creativity?

There’s a particular kind of panic that hits when you’re facing a creative problem, and the well just feels… empty. Every idea seems stale…Continue...

The 80% job: how design leads are using AI — and it’s not about mockups

The natural design process

Designing useful ads

What design leaders must unlearn to lead in an AI-first world

Learn Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking using Kali Linux

To protect your applications against threats, it’s helpful to understand the methods that attackers can use against you. We just posted a course on the...

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...

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...

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...

How to Build a Real-Time Public Speaking and Presentation Coach

Nowadays, being able to present an idea, project, or achievement is a must-have skill. The ability to showcase and talk about your work can determine whether...

Top Heroku Alternatives for Deployment in 2026

For more than a decade, Heroku defined what “developer-friendly deployment” meant. Push code, forget servers, and focus on shipping features. That promise...

How to Build AI Agents That Remember User Preferences (Without Breaking Context)

Why Personalization Breaks Most AI Agents Personalization is one of the most requested features in AI-powered applications. Users expect an agent to remember...

Innovation is not magic; it’s technique

When AI passes the capitalist Turing test