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The world still needs people who care - CodePen founder Chris Coyier interview [Podcast #212]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Coyier. He's a front-end developer and co-founder of CodePen and the CSS Tricks blog. He has also recorded more than 700...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Set Up WebAuthn in Node.js for Passwordless Biometric Login

JWT auth feels clean until a stolen token still looks valid to your server. That's the real problem: a bearer token proves possession of a token, but it...

Sumit Saha - freecodecamp

How Atomic CSS and Functional Programming Are Related

Hello, friends! My name is Ramazan, and I'm a front-end developer and enthusiast who loves looking at familiar things in web development from new...

Ramazan Maksyutov - freecodecamp

How to Troubleshoot Ghost CMS: Fixing WSL, Docker, and ActivityPub Errors

Setting up Ghost CMS (Content Management System) on your local machine is a great way to develop themes and test new features. But if you're using Windows or...

Abdul Talha - freecodecamp

UX

How to Automate Form UX Audits: Errors, Hints, and Keyboard Flows

Forms are often the gatekeepers to conversions on a site or application. Abandoned carts, partially signed-up users, and users who stop engaging with your app...

Oleh Romanyuk - freecodecamp

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree

How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation. Brought to you by Smart Interface Design Patterns,...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

You can’t design what you won’t maintain

A marvel of design is about to collapse into the ocean, and we can’t do anything about it.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Rita Kind-Envy - cc/feed

Forget your “lovable” products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Creating the products and services we always wanted to build was never about changing the definition.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Ian Batterbee - cc/feed

How werewolves killed my Pinterest

This is what happens when your attention is being actively hijacked — the best “inspo pics” app is now unusable.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Rita Kind-Envy - cc/feed

How accepting “just build this thing” can hurt your design career

Designers are being asked to build fast. Here’s why you need to push backContinue reading on UX Collective »

Kai Wong - cc/feed

Context engineering: A repeatable AI workflow for product designers

A step-by-step method to feed AI the right inputs in the right order, without prompt gymnastics.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Vadym Grin - cc/feed

UI

Designers, your next user won’t be human

And they don’t care about your pixel-perfect mockups.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Hoang Nguyen - cc/feed

Design

Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow

Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan Da Dan and superhero...

Alan Cohen - smashingmagazine

A designer’s field report on the Iconic blind spot in AI world models

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Mobile

How to Build a Production-Ready Flutter CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions: Quality Gates, Environments, and Store Deployment

Mobile application development has evolved over the years. The processes, structure, and syntax we use has changed, as well as the quality and flexibility of...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

Other

Software Testing with Playwright

Testing is the unsung hero of software development because shipping features is only half the battle. We just published a comprehensive course on the...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Stop Staring at a Blank Deck: How I Use Claude Code + Marp to Think Through Presentations

The hard part of building a presentation is figuring out the story. What are you trying to say? What’s the structure? Which sections build on which? Where...

Omer Rosenbaum - freecodecamp

How to Implement the Outbox Pattern in Go and PostgreSQL

In event-driven systems, two things need to happen when you process a request: you need to save data to your database, and you need to publish an event to a...

Alex Pliutau - freecodecamp

How to Build a Production RAG System with Cloudflare Workers – a Handbook for Devs

Most RAG tutorials show you a working demo and call it done. You copy the code, it runs locally, and then you try to put it in production and everything falls...

Daniel Nwaneri - freecodecamp

Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly

Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the container’s edge. Godstime Aburu...

Godstime Aburu - smashingmagazine

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Nate Sowder - cc/feed

The art of conversational flow

Tony Phillips - cc/feed