
Want to learn how to combine React 19 and AI LLMs to build something handy? We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you to build an AI-powered Code Explainer App from scratch. Tapas Adhikary created this course. Learn to design the app, configure an Express.js backend, set up a…

Have you ever wondered about the history of vision transformers? We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that is a conceptual and architectural journey through deep learning vision models, tracing the evolution from LeNet and AlexNet to ResNet, EfficientNet, and Vision Transformers. Mohammed Al Abrah created this course. The course explains the…
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He’s a self-taught software engineer who got his first developer job at age 43. He spent decades working in manufacturing while raising his kids, before using freeCodeCamp to learn programming. He was able to translate his JavaScript skills into working on enterprise Java apps, and now works at a semiconductor company. We talk about: What…
Everyone is talking about “vibe coding” and the generative AI in the context of software engineering these days - and rightfully so, as the impact on the industry is nothing short of paradigm shifting, however there is a misconception that generative AI provides non-technical people with “build me this” button and that neither IT experts nor complex…

Two decades after Linus’s first git commit, contributors from around the world gathered at GitHub HQ in San Francisco—not just to reflect on Git’s history, but to imagine its future. Git Merge 2025 marked 20 years of Git with technical talks, community collaboration, and the kind of hallway chats you can’t capture in slides. More…

🚀 Using Cursor and Trigger in SQL (with Examples) In SQL, cursors and triggers are powerful features that allow you to process queries row by row and automate actions when data changes. Let’s learn how to use them with practical examples. 🔹 Cursor Example: Employees with Salary > 50,000 We want to display employee names…
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. September 15 17:55 UTC (lasting 25 minutes) On September 15, 2025, between 17:55 and 18:20 UTC, Copilot experienced degraded availability for the majority of the features. This was due a partial deployment of a feature flag to a global rate limiter.…

Have you ever opened React project source code and wondered why things are so messy? Have you ever tried adding a feature to a React component created by someone else and felt that you needed to rewrite it? Have you felt nightmarish in tackling state and props for a component and its children? If you…

Have you ever built a brilliant time-series model, one that could forecast sales or predict stock prices, only to watch it fail in the real world? Well, this is a common frustration. Your model works perfectly on your machine, but the moment you deploy it in a Docker container, it seems to develop amnesia. It…
Are you an avid iPhone user eager to experience the latest updates from Apple’s operating system? If so, you’ll be thrilled to hear that iOS 26 is now available for download. This fall, Apple is set to release its latest operating system, which promises to bring a range of exciting new features and improvements to…