Cybersecurity remains one of the fastest-growing fields today, and for a good reason. The need for skilled cyber defenders grows as our lives and businesses go ever more digital. A cybersecurity certification can help you boost your skills and demons...  ( 7 min )

Generative AI is reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence, allowing machines to create text, images, audio, and even answer questions in natural language. But understanding the entire end-to-end process can be complex without structured gui...  ( 5 min )

Extension methods are a fundamental part of C# and Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Extension methods in C# allow you to "extend" existing types, including classes, interfaces, or structs, without modifying their original code. This is particularly...  ( 10 min )

November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!  ( 17 min )

If you're an avid Facebook user, you've probably saved countless posts, videos, and links to revisit later. But sometimes, these saved posts accumulate and become overwhelming. You may decide to un-save them all at once rather than manually uncheckin...  ( 5 min )

The console object is the number one go-to for developers when working with buggy JavaScript code. But if you still rely heavily on the console object alone to debug your JavaScript, then you're missing out on some amazing browser developer tools fea...  ( 8 min )

Smart pointers are data structures that act like pointers but contain extra information and have functionalities that make them excel over regular pointers in certain situations. So what are regular pointers? Regular pointers (just called “pointers”)...  ( 9 min )

The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting. State of CSS 2024 Results originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.  ( 16 min )

Merging multiple Google Docs into a single document is often essential for compiling reports, gathering information from various sources, or creating unified documents for presentations or sharing. By combining multiple files into one, users can keep...  ( 9 min )

A codebase can become messy and hard to manage over time. This happens because of quick fixes, outdated features, or just not enough time to clean things up. When code becomes difficult to read or change, it slows down progress and can even cause bug...  ( 17 min )

What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices. Tooltip Best Practices originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

Welcome to the world of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). OSINT is all about gathering public information from various online sources. OSINT can come from social media, websites, search engines, and even public databases. You’d be surprised at how mu...  ( 6 min )

10 years ago today I sat down in the closet of my San Francisco apartment and coded the first few hundred lines of freeCodeCamp. I didn't know it at the time, but fCC would quickly grow into a global community of busy adults learning to code togethe...  ( 11 min )

Reliable systems consistently perform their intended functions under various conditions while minimizing downtime and failures. As internet users, we tend to take for granted that the systems that we use daily will operate reliably. In this article, ...  ( 11 min )

Let’s learn how to find hidden information online by using advanced search operators on Google. The internet holds vast amounts of information. Much of this information is accessible through Google. But did you know you can use Google in ways beyond ...  ( 6 min )

Have you ever built a project but found it difficult to make it live on the internet? Well, worry no more because this article will help you do that. In this article, I will introduce you to one of the fastest and easiest deployment platforms for bri...  ( 7 min )

2024 has been an extremely productive year for the freeCodeCamp community. We’ve built up an incredible amount of momentum toward our missioncreating open learning resources for everyone. Over the past 12 months, the freeCodeCamp community has: Merg...  ( 7 min )

When you're coding in JavaScript, handling decisions through conditional statements is one of the core tasks you'll frequently encounter. One of the most commonly used methods for this is the ternary operator. But what exactly is it, and when should ...  ( 7 min )

On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Dorian Develops. He's a software engineer and prolific YouTube creator. Dorian grew up in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. He's the child of a single mother that arrived as a refugee from Cub...  ( 4 min )

OOP is a crucial concept that every developer should grasp, especially when getting ready for job interviews. It helps you organize code into modular and reusable sections, which simplifies the development, maintenance, and scaling of software applic...  ( 11 min )

You’d be forgiven for thinking coding up both a dark and a light mode at once is a lot of work. You have to remember @media queries based on prefers-color-scheme as well as extra complications that arise when letting visitors … Come to the light-dark() Side originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 18 min )

A whole bunch of years ago, we posted on this idea here on CSS-Tricks. We figured it was time to update that and do the subject justice. Imagine a scenario where you need to split a layout in half. Content … Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

I recently picked up a Windows ARM device in the form of a Samsung Galaxy Book 4 with a SnapDragon X Elite chip. Best Buy had a sale going for $799 at the time, and so I 'snapped' one up. I've been wanting to get my hands on an ARM machine to check how some of my Windows applications run on an ARM device and how well these machines work as mainline Windows machine. While I didn't intend this to be my main machine, from testing and using it as a portable machine away from my big laptop, the verdict is in: Most things work very well without any changes. Everything works - except SQL Server! When I picked this machine up and started installing my typical developer and productivity workload on it, I was expecting a lot of stuff to not work or work badly through emulation. Just about everyth…  ( 8 min )

Securing your application goes beyond simply granting or denying access at the surface level. As a developer, you need to implement fine-grained authorization (FGA) to manage permissions at a more detailed, granular level. FGA allows you to set up de...  ( 17 min )

Are you ready to dive into the world of full-stack web development and AI-powered applications? This comprehensive tutorial takes you through the exciting process of building and deploying an intelligent, fully-featured email client from scratch. Usi...  ( 4 min )

We've just released a comprehensive course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel to help you prepare for the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification exam – and it's completely free. This in-depth course, created by cloud expert Andrew Brown, is d...  ( 4 min )

Ethical hacking involves testing and finding vulnerabilities in systems. But doing this on live networks or public servers can lead to accidental damage. Setting up a virtual lab for hacking is a great way to sharpen your skills in a safe environment...  ( 7 min )

Terence Eden on using text-wrap: balance for more than headings: But the name is, I think, slightly misleading. It doesn’t only work on text. It will work on any content. For example – I have a row of icons at … You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

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The difference between Popovers (i.e., the popover attribute) and Dialogs (i.e., both the <dialog element and the dialog accessible role) is incredibly confusing — so much that many articles (like this, this, and this) have tried to … Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even if you’re comfortable with that, writing the full declaration can be verbose and tough to remember. I know I often … Clamp it! VS Code extension originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

I’m utterly behind in learning about scroll-driven animations apart from the “reading progress bar” experiments all over CodePen. Well, I’m not exactly “green” on the topic; we’ve published a handful of articles on it including this neat-o one by Lee … Unleash the Power of Scroll-Driven Animations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 19 min )

Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though. If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming … Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including variations. JSON offers a nicely structured syntax that’s easily consumable by JavaScript, thereby allowing … Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

One of the interesting (but annoying) things about CSS is the background of children’s elements can bleed out of the border radius of the parent element. Here’s an example of a card with an inner element. If the inner element … Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS `min()` function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his findings.  ( 16 min )

What’s in a word? Actions. In the realm of user interfaces, a word is construed as the telltale of a control’s action. Sometimes it points us in the correct direction, and sometimes it leads us astray. We talk a lot … Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 12 min )

Design decisions shouldn’t be a matter of personal preference. We can use reliable design KPIs and UX metrics to guide and shape our design work and measure its impact on business. Meet How To Measure UX and Design Impact, our new video course that helps with just that.  ( 19 min )

CSS gradients have been so long that there’s no need to rehash what they are and how to use them. You have surely encountered them at some point in your front-end journey, and if you follow me, you also … CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 12 min )

In this third part of the series, you are looking at two models that handle all three modalities — text, images or videos, and audio — without needing a second model for text-to-speech or speech recognition.  ( 19 min )

It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral WPGraphQL plugin has not only become a canonical WordPress plugin, but creator Jason Bahl is joining Automattic as well. I’m … WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to the original post. In the end, I have to make the simple but painful choice of deleting or archiving hours … 2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the most recent episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I was nervous as heck. I’ve admired Heydon’s work for years, and even though we run in similar circles, this was our first … Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

The @supports at-rule has been extended several times since its initial release. Once only capable of checking support for property/value pairs, it can now check for a selector using the selector() wrapper function and different font formats and techs using … Recipes for Detecting Support for CSS At-Rules originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 9 min )

RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.  ( 16 min )

You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity will both extend your reach to new niches and make the web a more equitable place.  ( 17 min )

Go behind the scenes with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab color space, and discover how he developed a simple yet effective model with good hue uniformity while also handling lightness and saturation well — and is “okay” to use.  ( 16 min )