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The Gamepad API Lies to You: A Practical Guide to Reading Controller Input in JavaScript

The Gamepad API is one of the smallest browser APIs you'll ever use. Four properties, one function, and no permissions prompt. You can have a controller drawn...

How to Build an AI Chatbot with Gemini and Vercel Serverless Functions 🚀

A couple of months back, I built a chatbot application using React, Node.js, and Vercel Serverless Functions, which I used in my web app,...

AWS Cloud Cost Monitoring, Alerting, and Optimization: A Guide for Devs

There's a common conversation that happens in engineering teams every month. Someone forwards a screenshot of the AWS bill. The number is higher than last...

How to Build a Scholarship Research MCP Server with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB

Scholarship hunting is a research job, not a single search box. You filter awards by field, GPA, citizenship, and deadline. You keep a shortlist. You write...

Tetris had to cheat to feel random

Nobody can see a probability distribution. You only ever see a sequence, and sequences are where human intuition falls apart.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

What a 1960 study of city maps explains about AI context.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric

A framework for emotional design that survives contact with an engagement dashboardContinue reading on UX Collective »

Villains plan. Heroes react.

What product teams should borrow from the people who want to take over the world.Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to Refactor a Legacy Application Before Migrating It

The moment a team decides to migrate a legacy application, there's usually pressure to start moving code. Move the database, the API, or the UI. Move the...

The Design Patterns Handbook: Learn Popular Design Patterns with C# Code Examples

Design patterns are reusable solutions to common problems in software design. Think of them as blueprints: not finished code, but proven templates you can...

How a System Call Actually Works in Linux

Here's a small C program. It calls clock_gettime() three times, then writes five bytes to standard output. #include #include #include int main(void) { ...

How AI Receptionists Work: The Architecture Behind AI Phone Agents

An AI receptionist may sound simple from the outside: a caller speaks, the system responds, and the conversation continues until the caller gets an answer or...

How to Use Discord with a Screen Reader: A Quick Guide

Discord is one of those technologies that came out of nowhere several years ago and is now everywhere. A huge variety of servers around all sorts of...

How AI Is Changing Patching and What Devs Need to Know About Exposure Management

When a vulnerability scanner reports 23 vulnerabilities in your application, of which 4 are critical, 7 are high, and the remaining 12 are medium, at first...

AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product

AI in Product teams: In 2026, the growing impact on collaboration

Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.