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From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Project...
ujja
How we're using Gemini Embeddings to build a smarter, community-driven feed on DEV
Big improvements incoming 👋 Finding the right balance for a feed algorithm is historically really...
Ben Halpern
Skills, Java 17, And Theme Accents
Java 17 is the new Initializr default, generated projects ship an AGENTS.md authoring skill that any AI agent can pick up (including a workflow that lets agents drive jdb against the simulator), native themes get a runtime accent palette, plus Metal
Shai Almog
The Most Concerning AI Risk of 2026
7000+ dev developers shared their thoughts about AI in the recent State of Web Dev AI survey.
Sacha Greif
jnigen and swiftgen in 2026 - some lessons learned
Package jni 1.0.0 was recently published. It's a good opportunity to share some of my lessons from...
Dominik Roszkowski
What If Every Phone in the Room Was a Game Controller — in the Age of AI?
Building an open-source framework for the age of vibe-coded party games, and what nine developers built with it in seven hours.
Tim Vučina
Demystifying AI Agents with Turtle & Gemma
🐢 Speaking into Canvas If you're anything like me, your very first taste of "programming"...
bebechien
Chat to build and schedule your own personal Hacker News email digest! 🎉
I have been working on a side project for the past few weeks and finally got it polished enough to...
Anmol Baranwal
Metal and Skins
A new Metal rendering backend for iOS, a browser-hosted Skin Designer that retires the skin downloader, an iOS Reminders-style Return-as-Done flag, status-bar tap diagnostics, a simulator dark/light toggle, and a candid look at how we balance quality
Shai Almog
AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier. It Made the Hard Parts Harder.
When I started using AI tools seriously across my side projects, I expected the work to get easier....
Praveen Rajamani
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
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
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
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
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
Building a Zero-Cost AI Feature in Flutter with Gemma 4 + Firebase
How to combine on-device inference with cloud sync — without paying a cent in API fees ...
Carol Bolger
ProfitPulse ERP: An AI-Powered Business Intelligence App Built with Gemma 4 & Flutter
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I...
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Clean Architecture in Flutter 2026 - Practical Implementation Guide
Disclaimer! I know you can easily generate MVVM structure with AI, but understanding the...
Samuel Adekunle
Congrats to the OpenClaw Challenge Winners!
The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the OpenClaw Challenge. Over the past...
Jess Lee
Why I Didn’t Let AI Handle My Scroll Animation: Astro, React, and TypeScript Architecture
Hoi hoi! I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer who once panicked because I triggered a fire alarm while...
nyaomaru
Flutter Outbox Pattern
Persistent, idempotent retries for writes that absolutely must reach the server.
Guim
Build Your Own AI Butler - A Scheduled Agent That Runs Itself!
I want an AI agent that works for me. I want it to search up the latest news, and I want it to...
Erik Hanchett
Liquid Glass, Material 3, And A Lot Of Plumbing
New iOS Modern (liquid glass) and Android Material 3 native themes, how they work in the Playground, in the simulator, and on devices, plus a week of performance and look-and-feel improvements including sticky headers.
Shai Almog
Am I a Developer or Just a Prompt Engineer?
Three years ago, if you asked me "what do you do?" I had an answer I'm a software developer. I write...
Harsh 
Flutter Mobile Test Automation: The Complete Guide
"We picked Flutter because it promised one codebase for everything. But now we have three separate...
Jay Saadana
Stop Using useEffect Like This: 5 Patterns That Are Silently Breaking Your React App
I was doing a code review for a colleague when I found it. The component had five useEffect...
Gavin Cettolo
A LinkedIn Recruiter Sent Me Malware Disguised as a "Pre-Interview Code Review"
A recruiter pitched me a remote engineering role and asked me to review their codebase before the technical interview. The repo turned out to be a five-stage trojan that exfiltrates your environment variables and gives the attacker arbitrary code execution. Here's exactly what was in it, and the simple precaution that defeats the whole class.
Vladimir Novick
I Built a Mobile App in 3 Days. The Hard Part Was Keeping It Connected.
I have been building web apps for 12 years. In that time I never wrote a single line of mobile code....
Juan David Gómez
I Accidentally Wrote a Filesystem Driver. For a Browser. 🤔
Staring at a bug report that makes no sense. Data gone. No error. No warning. No stack...
Ekong Ikpe
Write Code That's Easy to Delete: The Art of Impermanent Software
We obsess over making code last. Maybe we should obsess over making it leave gracefully. There's...
Adam - The Developer
I Don't Like Tailwind. Sorry Not Sorry
An opinionated defence of hand-crafted CSS in a utility-class world There. I said it. Call me a...
Andy Robinson
I Rebuilt Karpathy's NanoChat in JAX. Here's What XLA Gets Right and What It Gets Dead Wrong.
AI GDE TPU Sprint 2026 · Google TPU Research Cloud Quick summary: We ported Andrej Karpathy's...
Omotayo Aina
More Accessible Focus Indicators with Compose
Last summer, I wrote a blog post about focus management with Compose. Ever since, I’ve had drafts of...
Eevis
Indie SaaS SEO — Flutter Web Meta Tags, Tech Blogging, and Structured Data
Indie SaaS SEO — Flutter Web Meta Tags, Tech Blogging, and Structured Data SEO is the...
kanta13jp1
Cross-Platform Apps Don’t Need to Mean Cross-Platform UI
For a long time, cross-platform app development felt like choosing the least painful compromise. You...
Rajaniraiyn R
Fine-Tuning Gemma 4 with Cloud Run Jobs: Serverless GPUs (NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro) for pet breed classification 🐈🐕
Google has just announced the release of Gemma 4! This new generation of open models brings...
Shir Meir Lador
SHIFT: The Third Time I Tried Convergence
In 2013 I bought an Ubuntu Phone. Not because I needed a new phone, but because the demos kept...
Marco Allegretti
ML acceleration guide: TPUs vs GPUs
There’s a lot of hype around GPUs and NVIDIA, but how much do you know about TPUs? Article...
Glen Yu
How a Broken Logo Animation Taught Me How Next.js Really Boots
A deep dive into pre-hydration rendering, critical CSS, vanilla JS, and what it actually...
Sulagna Ghosh
Fine-Tune Any HuggingFace Model like Gemma on TPUs with TorchAX
Learn how to fine-tune PyTorch HuggingFace models on Google TPUs using torchax and LoRA — no JAX rewrite needed. Includes evaluation, save/reload, and a Colab notebook.
Ahmed Elnaggar
The Context Window Lie: Why Your LLM Remembers Nothing
The Context Window Lie: Why Your LLM Remembers Nothing Every time you paste 200K tokens...
Mehmet TURAÇ
I Spent 6 Months Trying to See Time in Videos. Here's What Finally Worked.
Originally published on Medium. Let me start with a confession: my first attempt at building a...
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