Codemotion Magazine

April 14, 2025

The hidden cost of AI – and why it matters

By Gloria de las Heras Calvino

“Create an image of what you think I look like based on what you know about me.” The internet is flooded with AI-generated portraits—some cartoon-like, some flesh-made—of people’s appearances, often accompanied by comments on how little resemblance these pictures bear to their original subjects. My output was a not-so-good-looking male, which made me raise an… Read more

April 3, 2025

The Rise of Vibe Coding: Beyond the Hype and the Hate

By Codemotion

In early February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” in a tweet that quickly captured the tech world’s imagination. Within weeks, this concept spread from social media to mainstream publications like the New York Times, Ars Technica, and the Guardian. But as with many rapidly popularized terms, there’s growing concern that “vibe coding”… Read more

March 25, 2025

Lost in Translation: A Humorous Look at AI Hype, Bad Content, and Algorithmic FOMO

By Diego Petrecolla

I find myself more and more often playing digital cop. Besides my side hobby of reporting the numbers of those damn call centers—now increasingly sophisticated at bypassing filters—these days I turn into a vengeful Dirty Harry every time I come across an article clearly created or poorly translated by AI. Let’s be clear: there’s nothing… Read more

Frontend

3 min read

March 3, 2025

Native CSS: A Whole New Story – Part 1

By Daniele Carta

In this article, I’ll explain why I personally love it more and more. We’ll explore how CSS has evolved in recent years, incorporating many features previously available only through preprocessors like SASS and LESS. CSS Nesting CSS Nesting is a recently introduced feature that allows for more readable and concise nested rules, similar to what… Read more

February 5, 2025

Understanding Angular — Exploring Dependency Injection and Design Patterns — Part 0 🔥🚀

By Giorgio Galassi

This is the 1st of a series of articles that have the goal to explore and understand a topic that I see too much neglected in the front-end world — Dependency Injection (DI) & Design patterns. You will start writing and understanding the basics of DI — what is it, how does it work and how works in Angular.… Read more

2 min read

January 21, 2025

Building Agnostic Components with CVA and TailwindDesign/UX

By jmlweb

Is Tailwind great? Yes. But does it have any weak points? Using Tailwind offers numerous advantages: However, it has a clear downside compared to traditional CSS approaches: code repetition. To mitigate this, Tailwind’s documentation suggests using components wherever possible. Another drawback: lost semanticsFor instance, applying the class btn--lg to an element implies using a “large”… Read more

Backend

April 2, 2025

.NET Refactoring Series: Episode 1 — How to Approach Service Refactoring

By giovanni-ferrari

Every developer, sooner or later, faces the challenge of refactoring a project that started as a proof of concept but ended up in production. For me, this is an exciting task. It gives me the opportunity to learn new things, complain about “who the hell wrote this code?”, and apply my knowledge to make the… Read more

March 13, 2025

Queueing Without a Queue: The PostgreSQL Hack

By Puppo92

This second article about queueing without a queue focuses on implementation based on PostgreSQL. This solution moves the queue implementation from the node system to the database, where it has dedicated storage to save the queues’ status. The leading actor of this post will be pg-boss, an NPM library that implements the queue system thanks… Read more

February 18, 2025

Software Architect: A Mythological Figure?

By LucaVaccaDeveloper

Making an analogy with the construction world, there’s always a structural engineer in the design phase who is responsible for calculating and defining the necessary foundations for the work before building a structure. This practice is not only logical but fundamental: you cannot build a house or a building without considering its architecture or the… Read more

Dev Life

7 min read

April 17, 2025

Of Mice and Men: discover the perfect mouse for you

By Arnaldo Morena

One of the most iconic (and unintentionally hilarious) moments in tech-meets-sci-fi history? When Scotty, freshly beamed into 1980s Earth in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, tries to talk to a computer — by speaking into the mouse like it’s a microphone. It’s a perfect reminder of how bizarre and counterintuitive the mouse can seem…… Read more

March 27, 2025

The Leader’s Moka

By Gianluca Desiderato

In the world of work, the success of a modern leader depends on a harmonious balance between soft skills and hard skills. Soft skills refer to relational, emotional, and communication abilities, while hard skills pertain to technical and specific expertise. An effective metaphor to understand this balance is the comparison between the moka – the… Read more

6 min read

March 13, 2025

Wingardium Leviosa: make your desk float

By Arnaldo Morena

As a kid, my passion for Goldrake led me to do some pretty weird things—like shouting “Alabarda Spaziale!” and “Doppio Maglio Perforante!” while launching myself off the couch, much to the bewilderment of my closest relatives. A less destructive alternative was spending hours drawing control panels filled with levers and buttons, which I would then… Read more

DevOps

8 min read

April 10, 2025

Top 10 CI/CD Tools in 2025

By Gilad David Maayan

What Are CI/CD Tools? CI/CD tools enable continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery practices. They automate the process of building, testing, and deploying applications, allowing for more frequent releases. This results in reduced manual intervention, fewer errors, and increased efficiency in software development cycles. CI (continuous integration) focuses on integrating code changes into a shared repository… Read more

March 25, 2025

Agile and Its Manifesto: How Relevant Are They in 2025?

By danthedev

The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 by some of the biggest names in software development. Since then, the Agile community has worked to spread and support the best-known, as well as emerging, practices under the umbrella of Agile methodologies. With nearly a quarter of a century passed, a legitimate question has recently surfaced online:… Read more