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What was your win this week??
👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...
Jess Lee
May 8, 2026
Two DEV Users. Two Countries. One Weird Little Avatar Project.
We Gave Our DEV Avatar Project a V2… and It Escalated Quickly A few months ago,...
Aryan Choudhary
May 13, 2026
Does AI Behave Like a Toxic Ex?
Is AI that toxic ex you just can’t forget about and can’t move on from? For every task you get...
Konark Sharma
May 11, 2026
5 types of engineers I met as a Technical Writer
Being a Technical Writer in an engineering world can be tough. We work closely with engineers, but...
Klaudia Grzondziel
May 8, 2026
My GitHub Graveyard has 27 dead projects. Here is the brutal truth about why.
I recently opened my GitHub account and filtered by private repositories. I actually counted them:...
S M Tahosin
May 13, 2026
Why does AI lie? Hallucinations explained simply
In the previous post, I showed you an AI doing something genuinely useful, helping me adapt a recipe...
Rohini Gaonkar
May 8, 2026
4 Tiny Mistakes That Secretly Destroy App Performance
Ok, I’m back from my short vacation and returning with some useful content 😄 As you know, from time...
Sylwia Laskowska
May 14, 2026
React is Overkill: Why Python + HTMX is Dominating in 2026
Last year I spent forty minutes setting up a React project for an internal admin dashboard. Just the...
Syed Ahmer Shah
May 13, 2026
My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine
My Arch Linux, Niri, and local AI coding setup on the ASUS ROG Flow Z13
Deepu K Sasidharan
May 11, 2026
What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You)
Instagram burnout: a tidy desk, a warm coffee mug, a caption about hustle culture and finally taking...
Harsh
May 13, 2026
From Rank 6,000,000 to 26,000: 1.5 Years, 1040 LeetCode Problems, and a Surprise Package That Changed Everything
I didn’t realize I was starting a 1.5-year journey when I opened my first LeetCode problem. It...
Hadil Ben Abdallah
May 13, 2026
What are your goals for the week? #178
Still learning my new camera. Getting better at remembering where stuff is on it. Next week is son's...
Chris Jarvis
May 11, 2026
Hacking perfectly square AI videos with Veo 3.1 and NanoBanana 2
If you’ve been playing around with AI video generation lately, you already know the struggle: the...
Paige Bailey
May 12, 2026
The Local Model That Doesn't Sleep: Gemma 4 + MTP as a Marathon Engine
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 I set the agent running just...
Ertuğrul Demir
May 8, 2026
Old PC vs New AI: Can a 2015 Desktop Actually Run Gemma 4? (2B vs 4B Benchmark)
Running modern AI models locally on older hardware sounds almost impossible. But with smaller models...
Daniel Balcarek
May 14, 2026
It's live. Tollere is on the App Store.
I wrote about this a few weeks ago. My wife and I had a shopping list app we built for ourselves,...
Stokry
May 12, 2026
Local-First AI Done Right: How Gemma 4 E2B and 'Thinking Mode' Powered DiagramFlowAI
What I Built DiagramFlowAI is a local-first desktop application (macOS, Windows, and...
Carlos Barbero
May 13, 2026
Lambda Just Got a File System. I Put AI Agents on It.
You've written this code before. An S3 event fires, your Lambda function wakes up, and the first...
Eric D Johnson
May 13, 2026
How Python's GIL actually works (and when it bites you)
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...
Athreya aka Maneshwar
May 10, 2026
GemmaBridge: AI Bridging the Inclusion Gap for Neurodiverse Learners
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 Note: This project is aimed at...
Vinicius F. Caridá
May 13, 2026
Your bundle is 4000x bigger than Quake. The 9-step audit that fixes it.
In February 2026 a developer named daivuk shipped a playable Quake-like first person shooter in a 64...
GDS K S
May 14, 2026
How to Save Bloated MCP with Code Mode
Is MCP Dead Because of Agent Skills? It sometimes feels like AI is not just disrupting the...
JS
May 13, 2026
⚔️ Go vs Java: The Minimalist vs The Enterprise Veteran
No sides. No agenda. Just two languages walking into a bar and us watching what happens. ...
Adam - The Developer
May 11, 2026
Day 99 of #100DaysOfCode — DevCollab: Deploying Next.js and Going Live
Today, DevCollab went fully live. The Next.js frontend is deployed on Vercel, the Django backend is...
M Saad Ahmad
May 13, 2026
The Hidden Cost of "It Works": Why Quick Fixes Kill Long-Term Speed
It was a Thursday afternoon when the Teams message came in. A bug in production. A date formatting...
Gavin Cettolo
May 12, 2026