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Development

How to Self-Host AFFiNE on Windows with WSL and Docker

Depending on cloud apps means that you don't truly own your notes. If your internet goes down or if the company changes its rules, you could lose access. In...

Abdul Talha - freecodecamp

How to Build a Serverless RAG Pipeline on AWS That Scales to Zero

Most RAG tutorials end the same way: you've got a working prototype and a bill for a vector database that runs whether anyone's querying it or not. Add an...

Christopher Galliart - freecodecamp

UX

What happened to the car designed for women, by women?

Lessons learned from the Volvo YCC and feminized crash test dummiesContinue reading on UX Collective »

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Why B2B UX features fail

The one question you always need to keep in mind for B2B projectsContinue reading on UX Collective »

Kai Wong - cc/feed

We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower

The designs shipped faster; the designers grew more slowly.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Hoang Nguyen - cc/feed

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

In the age of AI, “working” is a commodity while “winning” is the new mandate.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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UI

Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI

For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round...

Brecht De Ruyte - smashingmagazine

Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js

Some forms stay UI, while others quietly become rule engines. Here’s why these two different approaches exist and how to choose between them.

Sunil Sandhu - smashingmagazine

Design

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later

Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or...

Anders Toxboe - smashingmagazine

Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated

Kike Peña - cc/feed

Mobile

Learn How AI Agents Are Changing Software Development by Building a Flutter App Using Antigravity and Stitch

Software development has always evolved alongside the tools we build. There was a time when developers wrote everything in assembly language. Then...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

Other

Recursion in Python – A Practical Introduction for Beginners

Recursion is when a function solves a problem by calling itself. It sounds odd at first — why would a function call itself? — but once it clicks, you'll find...

Bala Priya C - freecodecamp

How to Get Started Coding in Golang

In the world of Software Engineering, there are plenty of programming languages to learn. And there are both low-level and high-level options. I’ve tried my...

Njong Emy - freecodecamp

How to Create a Table of Contents for Your Article

When you create an article, such as a blog post for freeCodeCamp, Hashnode, Medium, or DEV.to, you can help guide the reader by creating a Table of Contents...

Jakub T. Jankiewicz - freecodecamp

How to Use WebSockets: From Python to FastAPI

Real-time data powers much of modern software: live stock prices, chat applications, sports scores, collaborative tools. And to build these systems, you'll...

Nneoma Uche - freecodecamp

How to Implement the Strategy Pattern in Python

Have you ever opened a food delivery app and chosen between "fastest route", "cheapest option", or "fewest stops"? Or picked a payment method at checkout like...

Bala Priya C - freecodecamp

A Comprehensive Guide to Financial Storytelling using Data Visualization

In any analysis project, raw tables of numbers often don’t tell the full story. Visualisations simplify complexity by transforming data into shapes that our...

Nikhil Adithyan - freecodecamp

How to Build an Autonomous AI Agent with n8n and Decapod

I tried out Open Claw two weeks ago. I loved the potential, but did not enjoy the tool itself. I, like many others, struggled with the installation process....

Lee Nathan - freecodecamp

Why safe AGI requires an enactive floor and state-space reversibility

Peter Zak Zakrzewski - cc/feed

The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world

Dora Czerna - cc/feed

Sycophancy: the emperor’s new clothes

peng lin Ang - cc/feed

Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists

Fabricio Teixeira - cc/feed

The deceptive side of robot cuteness

Catherine Chu - cc/feed