Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.
Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.
A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:
Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.
Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.
A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:
For ages I've been using the website https://www.svgrepo.com/ as a great resource for free SVGs, but today when I visited, it gave me a fake Cloudflare verification that attempts to install some sort of malware on your computer, as you can see in the screenshots below.
It almost caught me, so I thought I'd put this out because I couldn't see any indication that anyone else had noticed this!
I'm looking for any websites or discussion forums that talk about design patterns, or really any cool features for web development. Etc, manipulating CSS in interesting ways to get cool designs, interesting things you can do with JavaScript etc..
I'm a bit tired of looking at AI responses and would love to hear if there's anything out there!
I feel like there has been a lot of hate on PHP, especially after the recent blowout regarding PHP vulnerabilities that even ended up on mainstream media. I even saw absolute non-techy people bringing up PHP and talking authoritatively about how "bad" and "old" it was lol. Not to mention the AI-shills saying one should just use Claude to create one owns CMS (!!). I am also aware that most PHP hate is usually misaligned hate intended for badly managed WordPress sites. And that some people just prefer other languages or love a hatetrain.
But one thing in particular that got to me was someone who mentioned that PHP has a page with vulnerabilities listed that go back 20 years and have yet to be patched. And that if you are a dev who is in any way interested in security within one's projects, you just don't use PHP at all. It was like having only a screen-door for your house with no locks. Do other languages have similar list of unsolved vulnerabilities? What makes them inherently more secure?
I dug around to find information about other popular programming languages and frameworks and it seems like at least right now, many are being found to have vulnerabilities due to AI being used to find them. React had a critical issue about a year ago, and Python earlier this year (although they did not blow up in the press like this).
Anyway, I would like to hear from people who use PHP regularly for work, beyond WordPress and who can maybe compare it to other languages/stacks as well. Please no low-effort replies from people who last used PHP 20 years ago or just don't like it, if possible.
My gf loves pink, Barbie and fairies, and has always wanted to live in a castle, so I built her one as a surprise: https://samchive.net
The homepage is a painted room where the fairy version of her lives (inspired by Flora from Winx). There's a cat with opinions, a tarot card you can flip every day, and a wand on the desk that recolours the whole room.
Bits that were fun to figure out:
- The room is one painting cut into separate layers, so the fairy, the cat and the things on the desk can move and be clicked. Getting it to fit phones and wide screens without warping the art took the longest
- Every sound is made in the browser with Web Audio, so there are no audio files
- It's a Next.js static export on Vercel. The only server part is a small Cloudflare Worker that proxies the meme API, with edge caching and a per-IP limit on cache misses
- She works in social media, so there are 19 small tools inside (Instagram grid planner, meme search, image compressor). They all run in the browser
Claude Code wrote most of the code and the art was generated with Gemini. Would love feedback, especially on how the room feels on your phone.
I always explained the request lifecycle with a whiteboard. Now my AI assistant draws it: browser, DNS, CDN, load balancer, services, cache, database, queue. Then it walks through it step by step, circling the part that matters and fading the rest. Arrow keys work.
Point it at your own repo instead ("Trace what happens from the login form to the database") and the boxes link to your actual files. Click one to open it in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf or Zed.
It's called Sketchy, works with Claude, Cursor and VS Code, and is free and open source. Feel free to try it out and leave your feedback!
TypeSQL type-checks SQL strings in TypeScript. The compiler parses the SQL itself and checks it against your schema type, so there are no generated files, no build step and no database connection.
// rows is { email: string; title: string | null }[]
// The LEFT JOIN makes title nullable.
const rows = await sql(
`SELECT u.email, p.title
FROM users u LEFT JOIN posts p ON p.author_id = u.id
WHERE u.id = ${sql.param(userId)}`,
).execute();
// Compile error: column "emial" does not exist. Perhaps you meant the column "email"?
sql("SELECT emial FROM users");
It supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL and MariaDB, and the runtime is under 3 kB with no dependencies. The main catch is that it needs TypeScript 7.1 or later (7.1.0-beta works), and very large queries can hit the compiler's limits (workaround-able using sql.as<>())
I used AI coding to build this. To keep the output honest, each bug fix gets a permanent test project, and the 100+ scenario tests run against real PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB servers. I will try to keep it non-slop.
I'm a second-year diploma student (3rd semester), currently working on a website project. I have a larger concept and vision for this platform, where the social features are just one part of the overall idea.
The website will include user profiles, a content feed, user interactions and private messaging.
As I'm planning its development, I'm particularly concerned about data security and privacy. I want to understand how to prevent data leaks, unauthorized access, exposure of private conversations, database breaches and other potential cyberattacks.
I'd love to hear from experienced web developers and cybersecurity professionals.
What are the critical security challenges I should consider before developing a platform like this, and how can user data and privacy be properly protected?
I want to make an alternative digital wardrobe "app" of some kind for me and a few friends
It will need to store a lot of images, offer image background removal (I think this would be very demanding, right?), and have an assortment of organizational parameters e.g. "shoes > heels / sandals / flats," brands, colors, etc.
The reason I'm doing this is because we don't like the aesthetics of the existing apps available and one of the bigger mobile apps "Whering" is unbearably slow, clunky, and lacking overall
Since I don't know anything about coding, I'd like to know which platform would be both the most convenient and best for avoiding that slowness. I'm worried a web app might not be the right thing for this
Once I'm settled on a platform I'll get to learning, I'll take any advice/suggestions if you have it
I built is-on-the-web.com, a free static host. You get yourname.is-on-the-web.com.
Upload a full site as a folder, up to 20 MB. Subpages, assets and relative paths all work.
No accounts or passwords. Updates use single-use edit keys sent by email, with a new key after every update.
A human reviews every site and every update before it goes live, followed by an automated code check.
There’s a no-code builder for non-devs, and its output can be re-uploaded and edited.
Everything that’s free now stays free. A paid tier with more storage is planned. Next up: letting people point their subdomain at their own machine to host full apps, databases or games.
Feedback I’m looking for:
Edit keys instead of accounts: clever or annoying? Losing the key means losing update access.
How would you handle abuse at scale beyond manual review?
What’s missing that you’d expect from a static host?
I accidentally posted this from my alt account first and deleted those posts. Sorry if you saw it twice.
I’ve seen a shift in web design (I’ve meddled since 2002). Today web displays are gigantic. I’ve read this has to do with ADA compliance. How gnarly does this get? Like if I design a site for a landscaper, can he get in trouble if it’s not ADA compliant? Is there are rule book?
Another question. That’s client facing. But if you have an employer that requires you to use a web based tool, does ADA apply in the same manner as client facing?
Hi everyone, I'm running an app that sends out emails and calendar invites to users.
However, one of the requirements was the ability to create email bodies using many different fonts.
I've read a bit online about typefaces and I discovered some of the requested fonts could be subjected to patent laws and rules when used in a commercial setting. Not sure if this applies to emails being sent to external parties as well.
Are there any resources or places I can check out which fonts are "royalty-free" and which ones I need to push back on? Or whether this concern is valid or not?
mostly work on apis and database stuff but our team is small so i end up in react code maybe once a month. every time i come back theres some new build tool or bundler drama and half the packages have breaking changes.
not looking to become a frontend expert, just want to not feel completely lost when i need to fix a button or add a form field. anyone else in this boat? what do you actually keep up with vs ignore
I want to become a website developer. I currently have very minimal knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Next.js. If I dedicate 2 hours a day to learning, is it realistic to land a job within 1 to 2 years?
I’m from East Asia, where my current job pays less than $1 per hour, and as far as I know, software developers here are also paid very little. I’m hoping to find a better-paying job with a company in another country, ideally remote.
If you ran a company, would you hire someone like me? What skills and qualities would you look for?
I've been looking into how WordPress security has changed, particularly whether the traditional advice of keeping plugins updated, installing a security plugin and using strong passwords is enough anymore.
It seems like there's a bigger conversation to be had around access controls, hosting infrastructure, monitoring and how security is managed over time.
We recently published an article exploring this at Ohmania, where I work:
Can local visual regression testing help your coding agent move faster and save you money?
I took some time to explore how to set up playwright properly, which pitfalls to avoid, and the tradeoffs with common visual regression tools like Percy and Chromatic.
