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Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript
Guts is a Go library that converts Golang types to TypeScript definitions, ensuring consistent typing between frontend and backend systems using the official TypeScript compiler.
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The Future of Secure Development: Faster and Safer Code
AI coding assistants help developers write code faster but often create security vulnerabilities. Future AI-native security systems must detect and fix these vulnerabilities automatically during development.
Testing HTML Light DOM Web Components: Easier Than Expected!
A development team modernizing a decades-old web application discovered that testing HTML Light DOM web components was surprisingly straightforward, often easier than testing framework-specific components like React or Vue. By...
Typescript without Typescript
Using JSDoc comments with vanilla JavaScript provides most of Typescript's benefits without requiring .ts files or learning Typescript syntax. This approach allows developers to add type checking to catch common errors like...
The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming
Programming spans 19 orders of magnitude in time scales, from nanoseconds to months, making "fast" and "slow" meaningless without context. This causes poor technology choices and team miscommunication.
Level Up Your JavaScript – Detect Smells & Write Clean Code
FreeCodeCamp released a one-hour JavaScript course by Tapas Adhikary teaching developers to identify code smells and refactor messy code. The course covers detection techniques, refactoring methods, and tools like ESLint and...
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Build an Accessible Chat and Video App in React
This tutorial shows how to build an accessible React chat and video app for users with disabilities using WCAG 2.1 AA standards, semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and real-time captions.
Some Thoughts About Claude Code
Claude Code is an AI terminal tool that can read entire codebases to provide better context than typical AI assistants, though it sends all data to Anthropic's servers for processing. The tool excels at well-defined tasks like...
OOP: The worst thing that happened to programming
A programmer argues that object-oriented programming (OOP) is fundamentally flawed, claiming that core OOP features like classes, methods, inheritance, and polymorphism create more problems than they solve compared to functional...
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Ruby's new JIT compilers, YJIT and ZJIT, monitor how frequently code sections run and automatically convert heavily-used Ruby code into faster machine language when usage exceeds a threshold of 30-120 calls. This compilation...
Building a Database From Scratch
Somewhere in the depths of a developer's curiosity, a simple question sparked an ambitious journey: what actually happens when you type "INSERT" into a database? Most programmers treat databases like black boxes, only caring...
Floodfill algorithm in Python
The floodfill algorithm spreads color from a starting point within a defined region, like a paint bucket tool. This Python tutorial demonstrates it through an interactive Python logo where clicking areas fills connected regions...
How Vibe Coding Rewrites the SDLC, a Developer’s Field Notes
Vibe coding, where developers orchestrate AI agents through natural language instead of manually writing code, is transforming software development by enabling teams to build MVPs in weeks rather than months. This approach can...
Javascript Fatigue: HTMX Is All You Need to Build ChatGPT
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FastAPI Docker Deployment: Preparing ONNX AI Models for AWS Lambda
This tutorial shows how to build a FastAPI server for ONNX AI models and containerize it with Docker for AWS Lambda deployment. It covers creating API endpoints, local testing, and Docker containerization.
Tooltip Components Should Not Exist
Web developers should avoid standalone tooltip components in design systems because they create accessibility issues and inconsistent experiences. Instead, use higher-level components like buttons with built-in tooltip...
9 SaaS Tools for Indie Builders to Scale Fast and Make it Sell ️
Indie SaaS builders face significant challenges when scaling their products from initial ideas to successful, sellable businesses. Nine specialized SaaS tools have been identified to help overcome these obstacles, covering...
Building the future of software in the AI-native era
AI is advancing from basic machine learning to autonomous systems that can reason and plan independently. Microsoft and NVIDIA's partnership is driving this shift, with early users seeing 30% efficiency gains and 50% faster...
How to Successfully Migrate Your App with an AI Agent
Most app migration failures stem from poor prompting rather than AI limitations, requiring a strategic approach similar to how humans tackle complex codebases. A developer successfully migrated a legacy LLM credit system from...
How to Fix Memory Leaks in JavaScript PDF Viewers: Best Practices and Debugging Tips
JavaScript PDF viewers often leak memory due to improper cleanup of objects and event listeners. Developers can detect these issues using Chrome DevTools heap snapshots while monitoring memory usage during document loading.
How to Create Fluid Animations with React Native Reanimated v4
React Native Reanimated v4 adds CSS-style animations alongside worklets, delivering 60+ FPS performance with familiar web syntax. Requires React Native 0.76+ with New Architecture but maintains backward compatibility.
How to Serve a Website With FastAPI Using HTML and Jinja2
This tutorial demonstrates how to transform FastAPI from a JSON API framework into a complete web server by using HTMLResponse, Jinja2Templates, and StaticFiles to serve dynamic websites. It progresses from basic HTML endpoints...
GitLab engineer: How I improved my onboarding experience with AI
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12 Best Web Scraping APIs
Modern websites increasingly use sophisticated anti-bot systems and JavaScript rendering that make traditional web scraping methods ineffective, forcing organizations to rely on managed Web Scraping APIs instead. These APIs...