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Today Quincy Larson interviews Santosh Yadav. The son of a textile worker, he grew up inner-city Mumbai and studied hard to get into university. From there he's worked as a software engineer for 16 years. Along the way, he's picked up every distincti ...

Recently, I wanted to understand how smart home devices actually work. When you scan a QR code and a light appears in your Home app, what's really happening? When you tap "on", what bytes travel across your network? The best way I know to understand ...

Back in 2023, when I started using ChatGPT, it was just another chatbot that I could ask complex questions to and it would identify errors in my code snippets. Everything was fine. The application had no memory of previous states or what was said the ...

Databases are one of the most important parts of a software system. They allow us to store huge amounts of data in an organized way and retrieve it efficiently when we need it. In the early days, when the volume of data was relatively small, engineer ...

Learn how to build a complete 2D Pixel Art Tower Defense game in Unity from scratch! We just posted a step-by-step tutorial on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will guide you from a blank project to a fully playable game with a main menu, mu ...

The freeCodeCamp community just published the first three chapters of our new A1 Professional Spanish Curriculum. Each chapter includes hundreds of interactive tasks designed to help you take your first steps in learning Spanish with confidence. How ...

We've all faced that awkward limitation with AI: it can write code or explain complex topics in seconds, but the moment you ask it to check a local file or run a quick database query, it hits a wall. It's like having a genius assistant who is locked ...

Let's say your Kubernetes pod crashes at 3am and the logs show nothing useful. By the time you SSH into the node, the container is gone, and you're left guessing what happened in those final moments. This is the reality of debugging modern applicatio ...

Supabase is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides developers with a powerful set of tools to build applications quickly. This comprehensive video tutorial introduces you to Supabase by building a real-world React.js Sales ...

Hashing is a fundamental technique in programming that converts data into a fixed-size string of characters. Unlike encryption, hashing is a one-way process: you can't reverse it to get the original data back. This makes hashing perfect for storing p ...