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DEV Community4 min read

AI Got Better While I Was Away. Software Didn't.

I haven't written here in a while. Not because I ran out of opinions. That would be concerning. I...

NorthernDev

DEV Community15 min read

Side Quests Grow on Trees (Leave Them Where They Grow) 🌿

A kids' plant treasure hunt for Android with on-device BioCLIP and TinyCLIP, Gemma 4 hints built locally, and 0 of 267 toxic test photos passing as a match.

Ashley Childress

DEV Community6 min read

Llama Village: a virtual world powered by local AI with llamadart

Llama Village in motion. The characters’ dialogue is generated by an on-device model. Watch the...

Jhin Lee

DEV Community7 min read

I Think We're Forgetting How to Be Bored

You know the moment. You're waiting for the kettle, or the elevator, or a page to load, or a friend...

James Anderson

DEV Community10 min read

Bash Isn't a Programming Language. It's a Text Substitution Engine.

A visual, beginner-friendly guide to how Bash actually executes commands. Discover why spaces break your scripts, how the expansion pipeline works, the subshell amnesia trap, and how to write scripts that never silently fail.

S M Tahosin

DEV Community3 min read

SaaS Search UX: Keep Filters When Results Are Empty

When a SaaS search returns no results, keep the query and selected filters visible. Explain that...

Uriel Bitton

DEV Community6 min read

I Tested 58 Trading Hypotheses. 48 Failed. Here’s the Framework That Killed Them.

58 hypotheses went in. 48 were rejected, 9 remained promising, and 1 could not be evaluated because...

Pavel Kazantsev 💎

DEV Community7 min read

Your AI Agent Will Do Something Terrible. Here's How to Survive It.

Here's a pattern I keep seeing. A team wires up an AI agent that can do real things — send emails,...

James Anderson

DEV Community17 min read

The Parts of a Job Search We Don't See

TL;DR We usually see a job search as applying, interviewing, and hopefully getting an offer. But...

Hemapriya Kanagala

DEV Community5 min read

Build a Tiny Virtual Pet on Arduino in 60 Minutes 🐾

Turn an Arduino Uno Q into Kiku, a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet with an animated LED face, moods, and keyboard controls.

Jen Looper

DEV Community2 min read

What Do You Drink While You Work?

I wrote a fiction series with six characters. Each one drinks a different coffee. I didn't plan it...

xulingfeng

DEV Community7 min read

FarbeDex: a colour picker that only works outside (and never needs the internet)

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass ...

Subarna Maity

DEV Community14 min read

Spider-Man Moonwalked Off a Billboard and Only My Test Suite Noticed

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

Athreya aka Maneshwar

DEV Community11 min read

Super-Intelligent Yes-Men: Are We Training AI to Ignore the Truth?

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge What I Benchmarked A published...

Daniel Nwaneri

DEV Community11 min read

Git Isn't a Diff Tracker: How Blobs, Trees, DAG Commits, and the Index Actually Work Under the Hood

A visual, 10-minute deep dive into Git internal architecture. Learn how content-addressed storage works, why Git never stores diffs, how the index prepares tree objects, and how to recover any lost commit using the reflog.

S M Tahosin

DEV Community3 min read

SaaS Pagination UX: Return to the Same Table View

When someone opens a record from a paginated SaaS table and goes back, restore the page, filters,...

Uriel Bitton

DEV Community4 min read

Your backtest beat a t-test. Would it beat a placebo?

You test 11 moving-average crossovers on five years of daily prices. The best one has a Sharpe of...

Arhan Canli

DEV Community7 min read

Django 6.1's PBKDF2 default change rewrites existing password hashes on next login

Django 6.1 raised the default PBKDF2 iteration count from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000. I measured the extra cost per login, then found it rewrites every hash on next login, including ones an admin had deliberately hardened above the new default.

Alex Georgiev

DEV Community4 min read

I Write on a 2006 iMac and Code on a $200 Laptop

I've always loved the idea of reusing old hardware, especially when it's still more than capable of...

Mika Flowers

DEV Community6 min read

Can You Tell the Difference Between These iOS Tab Bars?

Watch how the two tab bars respond to the recorded taps, holds, drags and changes of direction. Can...

Shai Almog

DEV Community9 min read

Guess the Speed: Building a Family Internet Speed Guessing Game

In this blog post, we will see how I turned our family's speed test ritual into a family internet...

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

DEV Community11 min read

I got Jev to zero mistakes. I'm still using Flash-Lite.

Jev is a brilliant decision model. Gemini Flash-Lite is the model nobody talks about, and it’s fast,...

Swift

DEV Community5 min read

🌟 Demystifying Kubernetes etcd: Inside the Cluster’s Brain & State Store

A hands-on look at how etcd works, why it uses a flat key-space for hierarchies, and how MVCC...

Pravesh Sudha

DEV Community3 min read

Human-in-the-loop isn't a safety net. It's a UX problem with a compliance label.

The diagram vs. the Tuesday afternoon On the architecture diagram, human-in-the-loop looks...

Dimitris Kyrkos

DEV Community4 min read

HN "Who is hiring?" in 2026: a third fewer companies, and 2+ job seekers for every one

Every month, Hacker News runs two threads side by side: "Who is hiring?" (companies post jobs) and...

arthur_taken

DEV Community2 min read

I Used a Honeypot Instead of a CAPTCHA on Our Quote Form

At work, I'm rebuilding a website for an organization that serves medical laboratories. The most...

Antony Nyagah

DEV Community3 min read

Single line CV

single line CV: Creator of mordorjs and TifY, also a pipeline-operator fanatic. 🇭🇺 Somewhere along...

Peter Vivo

DEV Community7 min read

Why Your TypeScript Code Still Crashes in Production

A practical visual guide to the TypeScript mental model. Discover why types vanish at runtime, how structural typing works, and how to write clean, type-safe code that never crashes in production.

S M Tahosin

DEV Community12 min read

How React Actually Works Under the Hood (And Why Your Mental Model Might Be Wrong)

A visual, beginner-friendly guide to React internals. Learn what triggers re-renders, how the Virtual DOM diffs trees, what the Commit phase actually touches, and why state updates feel asynchronous.

S M Tahosin

DEV Community6 min read

Native Desktop Themes for Production Apps

Use native desktop themes with OS window integration, light and dark styles, and your own branding. See Fluent, Aqua, and Adwaita in the Settings app.

Shai Almog