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For this week’s interview, we’ve got a special treat. Quincy Larson talking with two legends in the self-taught developer community. Danny Thompson worked for 10 years at a Tennessee gas station, frying chicken for people to eat, sometimes working 80 hour weeks just to provide for his family. And yet, Danny had ambition. He taught…

When users interact with a website or application, the first thing they notice isn’t the code. Instead, it’s the design and experience. Smooth navigation, intuitive layouts, and visually appealing interfaces are what keep users engaged. Behind these experiences, front-end developers play a pivotal role. They don’t just turn mockups into functioning code – they shape…

When large language models like ChatGPT first became widely available, a lot of us developers felt like we’d been handed a new superpower. We could use LLMs to help us develop new coding projects, build websites, and much more – just using a few prompts. LLMs were like a tireless, super knowledgeable pair programmer that…
TestSprite positions itself as an AI-powered testing tool that promises to test your entire application without writing a single line of test code. After hands-on testing, here’s what you need to know before investing your time and money. The process is straightforward: App Setup: Provide your website URL and basic login credentials AI Exploration: TestSprite’s…
Every great invention has carried both wonder and fear. The printing press spread knowledge but also propaganda. The internet connected the world but also created new ways to exploit and divide it. AI sits in that same lineage. It sparks fascination with the promise of medical breakthroughs, climate solutions, and new forms of creativity. At…
Borderlands 4 Gear Swap TL;DR Found an epic weapon but it doesn’t fit your current vault hunter? Borderlands 4 lets you vault guns and gear into a shared bank, then pull them out on any character with the swap gear menu. The guide even covers common bank storage hiccups so you don’t accidentally leave loot…
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. August 5 15:42 UTC (lasting 32 minutes) At 15:33 UTC on August 5, 2025, we initiated a production database migration to drop a column from a table backing pull request functionality. While the column was no longer in direct use, our…
Earlier this year, GitHub introduced an integrated, enterprise-ready coding agent for Copilot. Coding agent is a software engineering (SWE) agent that runs independently in the background to complete assigned tasks — similar to a peer developer. The agent starts its work when you hand it a task. Then it spins up a fully customizable development…
How often do you find yourself writing code with a clear goal in mind when suddenly this annoying urge at the back of your mind tells you Oh man this is so repetitive and single use, you really should abstract this, oh and this function up there man that function could be way more generic,…
Stu Robson is on a mission to “un-Sass” his CSS. I see articles like this pop up every year, and for good reason as CSS has grown so many new legs in recent years. So much so that much of the core features that may have prompted you to reach for Sass in the past…