Daily Archives: October 25, 2025

How to Improve Developer Experience in Microservices Applications with .NET Aspire

Since the advent of microservices, development teams have gained the flexibility to deploy services independently, without coordinating with the entire engineering organization. Bug fixes can be released in isolation without full regression testing, and multiple teams can ship updates simultaneously, sometimes ten or more deploys a day per team. But we rarely talk about the […]

First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson [Podcast #194]

Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal arts, then worked as a teacher for two decades before teaching himself programming using freeCodeCamp. He got his first developer […]

The React Handbook for Beginners – JSX, Hooks, and Rendering Explained

React is one of the most powerful and widely used libraries for building user interfaces with JavaScript. From small components to large-scale front-end and full-stack applications, React gives you the flexibility to create interactive, efficient, and modern features. But learning React can feel overwhelming. With so many new terms, patterns, and frameworks like Next.js in […]

How to Build a To-Do List MCP Server Using TypeScript – with Auth, Database, and Billing

In this tutorial, you’ll build a To-Do list MCP server using TypeScript. You’ll learn how to implement authentication, persistence, and billing, to make the server robust and functional for real users. By the end, you’ll have a working MCP server that: Authenticates users with Kinde. Stores to-do data in a Neon Postgres database. Enforces billing […]