Function Calling in Practice: Getting LLMs to Call Your API
2026-09-03
From defining tool schemas to running multi-turn tool_use loops, build a hands-on assistant that calls real APIs.
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5 minutes
Web Security Basics: Defending Against XSS, CSRF, and SQL Injection
2026-09-02
A practical guide to the three classic web vulnerabilities — XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection — covering how they work, how to defend against them, and runnable code examples with hardening checklists for each line of defense.
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7 minutes
A Complete Guide to Troubleshooting CORS Issues
2026-09-01
Starting from the same-origin policy, this guide breaks down CORS simple requests, preflight requests, and key response headers, then walks through practical troubleshooting of classic errors like "No Access-Control-Allow-Origin" using Express, native Node, and Nginx backend configurations.
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9 minutes
CSS Container Queries in Practice: Making Components Responsive to Their Own Size
2026-08-31
Move beyond viewport-only media queries—use container-type and @container to let cards, sidebars, and other components adapt to their own container width, with complete code examples and common pitfalls.
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7 minutes
The Classic Programmer Time Estimation Joke: Always Twice as Slow as Expected
2026-08-30
From Hofstadter's Law to the 90/90 rule, a look at why programmers can never estimate schedules accurately, and the estimation jokes that have circulated for decades.
508 words
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3 minutes
Best of Stack Overflow: Hard Truths Explained with Humor
2026-08-29
A curated selection of the most classic highly upvoted answers on Stack Overflow, showing how programmers explain obscure technical concepts through humor.
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3 minutes
Command Line Tips: 20 Commands to Boost Terminal Efficiency
2026-08-28
From command history and fuzzy finding to JSON processing, parallel execution, and background tasks, here are 20 commands and tools that can immediately improve your terminal workflow, with copy-paste-ready configuration snippets.
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6 minutes
How DNS Works and Troubleshooting Common Issues
2026-08-26
A visual walkthrough of the full domain resolution path from root servers to local caches, plus hands-on troubleshooting of classic failures like NXDOMAIN, SERVFAIL, and TTL not taking effect using dig and Node.js.
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9 minutes