Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer — Smashing Magazine

AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work. They help handle time-consuming grunt work, guide you through large legacy codebases, and offer low-risk ways to implement features in previously unfamiliar programming languages. Here are practical, easy-to-apply techniques to help you use these tools to improve your workflow. Over the last […]

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Here are the tools you need to clean, maintain, and upgrade your laptop — from cleaning cloths and dusters to screwdrivers and drive upgrades

Laptops are convenient. You don’t have to build them – unless you want to. They can travel with you everywhere, you turn them on, and they generally just work. Most people use them until the day they die and throw them away or recycle them. But just like complex PC builds, laptops can still benefit […]

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Tom Homan To Minneapolis: Look, I Warned You If You Weren’t Nice, We’d Have To Kill Again, And Look What You Made Us Do

from the de-escalating-the-press-coverage-and-not-much-more dept A couple weeks ago, in the wake of the murder of Renee Good, we wrote about “border czar” Tom Homan’s ridiculous TV comments suggesting that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE & CBP murderers for murdering people, that they’d just be forced to murder again. Now that that has happened, with […]

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Researchers Uncover Chrome Extensions Abusing Affiliate Links and Stealing ChatGPT Access

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Google Chrome extensions that come with capabilities to hijack affiliate links, steal data, and collect OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. One of the extensions in question is Amazon Ads Blocker (ID: pnpchphmplpdimbllknjoiopmfphellj), which claims to be a tool to browse Amazon without any sponsored content. It was uploaded to the Chrome […]

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Inside Kilo Speed: How One Engineer Shipped an MVP in His First Week

In the traditional engineering model, velocity is often sacrificed at the altar of coordination. Even a simple feature can spend weeks in an asynchronous feedback loop of internal posts and cross-departmental reviews before a single line of code is written. The process is designed for consensus, not speed. But when software engineer Evgeny Shurakov joined Kilo after […]

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Wanna see a CSS magic trick?

They talk about the importance of accessibility in web design, how the web went from table-based layouts to modern CSS techniques, and exciting developments coming to CodePen 2.0. Chris built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022, before selling it to DigitalOcean. CodePen is an […]

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