Category: Software

Every app that handles user accounts needs a way to confirm who’s who. That’s what authentication is for, making sure the person using an app is the person they claim to be. But doing this securely is harder than it sounds. Traditional methods often rely on server sessions and cookies. Those work, but they don’t…

Flexbox is a powerful CSS feature that lets you build user interfaces that fit any screen size. freeCodeCamp just published a Flexbox for beginners course where you’ll learn the concepts and code syntax by building your own website navigation bar. If you’ve ever struggled to center something with CSS or tried to make columns line…

This article is a sponsored by Maturing Design Systems Design systems have become an integral part of our everyday work, so much that the successful growth and maturation of a design system can make or break a product or project. Great tokens, components and organization aren’t enough — it is most often the culture and…

Developers are smart, wonderful people, and they’re some of the most logical thinkers you’ll ever meet. But we’re pretty terrible at naming things 😂 Like, what in the world – out of every other possible name, they decided to name a database after a literal cockroach? 🤣 I mean, I get it: cockroaches are known…

When we shared this year’s Octoverse data with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, his first reaction was genuine surprise. While TypeScript overtook Python to become the most used language on GitHub as of August 2025 (marking the biggest language shift in more than a decade), Python still grew 49% year over year in…

It may seem like everyone is a vibe coder these days, and prompting seemed like it would become the new coding. But is this AI-generated code really deployable? Bragging on social media about a clever script is one thing, but pushing a vibe coded app to prod comes with many security risks. With so many…

If you’re learning JavaScript, you’ve probably heard the term “closure” at some point. In many developers’ experience, just hearing this word can trigger anxiety. In nearly 17 years of programming experience, I’ve noticed that closures are one of the most intimidating topics for JavaScript developers, even though they shouldn’t be. The main goal of this…