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The Hidden Inefficiency of JSON vs the TOON Revolution

In traditional software development, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the undisputed king. It’s readable, structured, and universal. But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody told you when you started building with AI: LLMs don’t care about the “purity” of your data structure; they care about tokens. If you’re still sending and receiving large JSON blocks to… <a class="more-link" href="https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/frontend/frontend-trends-for-2024-css-revival-bff-ruling-languages-and-more/">Read more</a>

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The Hidden Inefficiency of JSON vs the TOON Revolution

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February 18, 2026

The Perceptron: The First Building Block of Neural Networks

By Codemotion
Imagine a miniature brain—a digital cell that can learn to make simple decisions. That’s essentially what a perceptron is: the forgotten hero that laid the foundation for the powerful neural networks driving today’s AI. Don’t worry about the jargon; we’ll break it down piece by piece until it clicks. A Real Machine That Changed Everything… Read more
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February 10, 2026

Beyond the Code: Scott Chacon’s Predictions on the Future of Development, Open Source, and AI

By Arnaldo Morena
This article explores the main highlights and key concepts of Scott Chacon’s “Why GitHub Won” speech at Codemotion Milan. Only a few months have passed since Codemotion Milan 2025, and AI Agents—the latest and supposedly final buzzword of 2025—are already struggling to provide enough novelty to satisfy the ever-hungry armies of programmers. But developers, as… Read more
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Frontend

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June 17, 2025

AI-Ready Frontend Architecture

By César Alberca
Originally published on cesalberca.com Adapted for Codemotion Magazine by César Alberca, Frontend Architect and Codemotion Committee Member Rethinking Frontend Architecture in the Age of AI We’re entering an era where frontend systems aren’t just used by humans—they’re also parsed, generated, and interpreted by AI tools. Modern frameworks like shadcn/ui, design-to-code tools like V0.dev, and IDE… Read more
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Backend

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July 30, 2025

Setting Up MCP Servers: What, Why and How

By Dipti Parmar
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve rapidly, AI agents are no longer isolated entities answering isolated queries. Instead, they act as orchestrators in complex ecosystems, communicating with other tools, accessing multiple data sources, collaborating within multi-agent systems, and performing actions based on data-informed reasoning. At the heart of this transformation lies the Model Context Protocol… Read more
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June 10, 2025

VanillaCreamJS: Superpowers for Native JavaScript

By Riccardo Degni
VanillaCreamJS is a JavaScript library that literally gives “superpowers” to native JavaScript, enabling powerful and modern capabilities like reactivity without the need for build tools or compilation steps. It’s a one-of-a-kind technology because it: VanillaCreamJS is created and maintained by Riccardo Degni, a senior Italian web developer. 👉 https://www.riccardodegni.com/projects/vanillacreamjs 📦 Installation Simply include VanillaCreamJS via… Read more
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May 13, 2025

Start building REST APIs with Django REST Framework

By raffaelegrieco.it
Django REST Framework (DRF) is one of the most powerful and flexible tools for building RESTful APIs in Python. This article will guide you step by step through the process of creating your first API endpoint, covering the use of serializers, views, and URL routing. In my previous article, we discussed how to structure your… Read more
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Dev Life

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February 2, 2026

Ada Lovelace: The Victorian Visionary Who Predicted AI 200 Years Before ChatGPT

By Lucilla Tomassi
What if I told you the first person to imagine intelligent machines wasn’t a Silicon Valley founder, but a 19th-century aristocrat who never lived to see electricity? In 1843, while most of humanity was still debating whether trains would make cows stop producing milk, Ada Lovelace wrote something extraordinary: notes on a theoretical computing machine… Read more
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January 7, 2026

Dev books for 2026

By Codemotion
Choosing a tech book is a bit like solving a murder mystery: too basic and you will be politely ignored; too advanced and you will be told “we don’t even do this at NASA.” That is why we curated a list of titles that can save your holidays—whether you read them yourself, give them as… Read more
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December 1, 2025

A Great Programmer Removes, Doesn’t Add

By Matteo Baccan
Writing software is an act that, ostensibly, anyone can perform. You sit down, turn on a computer, open an IDE, an editor, VI if you have a pure heart, or anything else (yes, Notepad counts too), and start typing. You don’t even need detailed specifications: what are they for when you have everything in your… Read more
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September 3, 2025

AWS Bets on Nuclear Energy to Power the Future of the Cloud

By Orli Dun
The fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and nuclear reactors is about to redefine the energy future of the cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an ambitious plan to integrate its AI systems with Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), aiming for clean, constant, and optimized energy to power its data centers worldwide. For technology and innovation… Read more
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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
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