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Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challengehttps://dev.to/challenges/mlh/built-with-go...
Audit Overview Day 10 of my 1HourADayJourney focused on breaking things to understand how they’re built. To secure a system, you have to think like an attacker...
Background Back in October, I read a blog by a GSoC contributor. He talked about how he started, how he discovered open source, what he worked on, and how his...
What Is a VPN Kill Switch? A kill switch is a network‑level failsafe that automatically blocks all internet traffic when your VPN connection drops or becomes u...
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What Are Variables? Think of a variable like a box that stores information. - One box stores your name - Another stores your age - Another stores whether you a...
🚀 Executive Summary TL;DR: Multiplayer applications frequently encounter real‑time state‑synchronization issues due to network latency and race conditions, ca...
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!BlackTape screenshothttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/r17ydgiutin87kgqfuxr.png I didn't use Claude Code to autocomplete functions or fix...
The Current State of AI Data Exports ChatGPT exports your data as a conversations.json file. It is a nested JSON structure containing every conversation as a t...
The Solution: Devicely v2.2.20 I built Devicely v2.2.20, a tool designed to slash mobile QA cycles by automating multi‑device testing with orchestration. Visua...
If you're using NVM for Windows and see the following error: text nvm enabled activation error: NVM_SYMLINK is set to a physical file/directory at C:Program Fil...
The problem with Stripe’s default retry logic Your payment fails. Stripe retries it. Problem solved, right? Not even close. I watched $4,200 in monthly revenue...
What AI Actually Changes in Software Development Part of a series – see previous pieces: “The Gatekeeping Panic”, “The Meter Was Always Running”, “Who Said Wha...
When building iOS apps, we often focus heavily on features, UI, and performance optimizations. But what actually ensures that every change compiles correctly, p...
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Why Designing a Real‑Time Chat Application Is Hard Designing a real‑time chat application is significantly more complex than building systems like a URL shorte...
If you need a screenshot API in 2026, SnapRender gives you the best value at scale $29 /mo for 10 K screenshots with every feature included, while Urlbox target...
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Background In my previous work translating the Surya Siddhanta an ancient Indian astronomical text, I spent months manually calculating planetary positions to...
Abstract Hiring help for OpenClaw is less about finding the flashiest demo and more about buying a setup your team can operate safely after hand‑off. This techn...
The Problem: Context Rot Context rot is the slow, invisible loss of useful knowledge every time you start a new AI conversation. You have explained your tech s...
Every business needs leads. Most founders spend hours on Google Maps, copying phone numbers into spreadsheets, cross‑referencing against their existing list. I...
Imagine asking: > “What’s the best luxury safari in Maasai Mara?” and instantly getting personalized travel recommendations powered by AI. That’s exactly what I...
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Background A few weeks ago, something stressful happened. I needed urgent access to one of my GitHub repositories, and I couldn’t access it. It wasn’t a dramat...
Challenges & Opportunities Creating software for a niche market presents its own challenges and opportunities. When we began developing Dance Master Pro, our s...
In this video I demonstrate the new OpenTelemetry injectorhttps://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector. It's a mechanism to automatically inject OTE...
So... Like I assume everyone, I was experimenting with AGENTS.md the other day I know, we're already bored of that and on to skills, but I suddenly realised tha...
On January 1 2026, the BACB switched the RBT exam to the 3rd edition Task List. If you’re studying for your RBT right now, the majority of practice questions fl...
markdown Monorepo Performance Patterns Turborepo & Nx Most teams move to a monorepo and see zero speed gains because they copy the README setup and stop. The re...
Arrays were honestly confusing to first. Not the concept — storing multiple values, fine. But all the utility methods scattered across different classes? That t...
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Introduction If you've ever pasted an API response with credentials or sensitive data into an online JSON formatter, you've probably uploaded that data to a th...
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I've always believed in the power of open source. Many of the tools we use every day exist because developers choose to share their work with the world. Being a...
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Working with Arrays in JavaScript Arrays are used to store multiple values in one variable. js const fruits = 'Apple', 'Banana', 'Mango'; But how do we add, re...
About Me Over the past year, I have experimented and gone back and forth about what kind of software developer I wanted to become and considered my current pos...
The Vulnerability Nobody Expected Last week, a critical vulnerability was disclosed in OpenClawhttps://github.com/openclaw/openclaw formerly Clawdbot — one of t...
I thought once I understood prompts, I’d feel ready to build. I had learned: - What LLMs are - How transformers work at a high level - Why prompts matter - How...
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The Problem I built an “awesome” API with 12 parameters. It was garbage. Nobody could use it without a PhD in my brain. After years of backend development, I l...
The Problem: JSON.parse Throws “Unexpected token” Sometimes JSON.parse throws an “Unexpected token” error even when the JSON looks completely valid. This can b...
Why explaining bugs to AI can be painful AI excels at code‑level reasoning, but giving it enough context about a bug often requires long, ambiguous explanation...
