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Day 117 of Learning MERN Stack

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 117 of my software engineering marathon! Today, I crossed over from building static layouts straight into intercepting real-time user inputs by mastering Event Handling in React! ⚛️⚡ Triggers In standard vanilla JavaScript, capturing events usually involves searching the DOM via explicit tracking IDs and binding active query listeners. React bypasses this manual plumbing entirely by wrapping native browser actions inside a performance-optimized cross-

Angular 22 vs React 19: Which Framework for Your Next Project

Angular 22 and React 19 are both excellent choices in 2026. But "both are good" isn't helpful when you're making a real decision. This post gives you a practical framework for choosing between them — based on project type, team experience, and long-term maintenance, not hype. Angular is a complete framework. React is a library. This single distinction drives almost every other difference between them. Angular ships with routing, HTTP client, form handling, dependency injection, state management

Day 116 of Learning MERN Stack

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 116 of my software engineering marathon! Today, I checked off another critical styling milestone in my React.js progression: implementing CSS Modules to build a clean, scoped component grid for a functional Calculator Interface! ⚛️🧮 When styling large enterprise applications, standard global style sheets often cause naming collisions. React CSS Modules elegantly solve this problem by scoping styles locally to the exact component file they belong to.

Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring human performers, c.ai Series are animated and almost entirely made with generative AI. The company's interest in getting

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

"I think it's fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this."

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Next.js Finally Fixed Caching (And My Database Is Sighing in Relief)

The shift to 'uncached by default' in recent Next.js versions fixed the biggest footgun in modern full-stack development. Here is how it changes your code today.

FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer

Gopher can’t play the piano for you, but it can bury it in the mix. | Image: Image Line Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gopher can actually execute actions on your behalf. I was able to ask Gopher to lay down a four-on-the-floor kick,

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

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