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Has the audience for technical articles dropped?
Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that articles on dev.to don't get as many reads/views as they...
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Dumebi Okolo
Confident technical writer with frontend developer skills, marketing skills and developer relations skills. I am also a very fun person to hang around with.
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#ai#webdev#mcp#beginners
The Enterprise MCP Gateway Buyer's Guide: SSO, SCIM, Audit, and Governance Requirements
MCP gateways are becoming mandatory infrastructure for any organization deploying AI agents at scale....
Dumebi Okolo14 min read
#ai#webdev#python#beginners
Semantic Observability: Engineering Reliability for Production RAG
It is a noticeable thing when a microservice fails. It is either a null pointer exception in a Java...
Dumebi Okolo6 min read
#ai#webdev#javascript#github
AI Code Review on a Vibe-coded Production App: What Qodo Found That I couldn’t See
Ozigi is a go-to-market engine I mostly built by prompting. The pull request in this article is an...
Dumebi Okolo10 min read
#webdev#javascript#tutorial#typescript
How to Build a LinkedIn Outreach Pipeline (Without Getting Your Account Banned)
TL;DR: A LinkedIn outreach pipeline is a background worker that signs in with your own session,...
Dumebi Okolo18 min read
#ai#webdev#mcp#programming
Per-User OAuth for AI Agents: Why It Matters and What to Look For
AI agents are crossing a line that traditional software never had to. They read your Slack, draft...
Dumebi Okolo9 min read
#discuss#sideprojects#socialmedia
There's this thing in me pushing me to build a social media app. 😅 Basically a place where people can connect, be happy and be free.
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#ai#tutorial#beginners#showdev
Best AI Content Generator 2026 (How Ozigi Produces Human Content)
This article is an honest comparison of the top 5 AI content creation tools in 2026 for technical...
Dumebi Okolo14 min read
#ai#mcp#webdev#programming
What Is an MCP Gateway — and Why Do Enterprise AI Teams Need One in 2026?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released by Anthropic in November 2024. Eighteen months later,...
Dumebi Okolo12 min read
#ai#webdev#javascript#typescript
How to Stop AI Slop in Production: A Two-Layer Validator for LLM Output (2026)
A user reached out to us this week. Their generated newsletter contained the word delve. Twice. This...
Dumebi Okolo11 min read
#webdev#security#tutorial#beginners
What To Do If Your Project Was Affected By The Vercel Breach
Vercel confirmed a security incident on April 19, 2026 affecting customer environment variables....
Dumebi Okolo11 min read
#ai#webdev#programming#javascript
Demystifying RAG Architecture for Enterprise Data: A Technical Blueprint
This article teaches how to engineer a robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to...
Dumebi Okolo18 min read
#webdev#javascript#node#beginners
Building a Robust Webhook Handler in Node.js: Validation, Queuing, and Retry Logic
Webhooks are everywhere. Stripe fires one when a payment succeeds. GitHub fires one when a PR is...
Dumebi Okolo7 min read
#devrel#contentwriting#ai#productivity
Your Social Media Content Marketing is Failing. Here's Why
I will intro this article with my experience, but retold. You've spent six weeks building something...
Dumebi Okolo9 min read
#webdev#javascript#showdev#nextjs
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 4 Production Constraints That Made the Decision for Me
An evaluation of the Gemini 2.5 flash and Claude 3.7 Sonnet model for an agentic engine. I had a...
Dumebi Okolo11 min read
#webdev#playwright#nextjs#api
How to End-to-end (E2E) Test AI Agents: Mocking API Responses with Playwright in Next.js
Building an AI agent is fun. At least, I have had so much fun building out Ozigi, a social media...
Dumebi Okolo4 min read
#webdev#showdev#nextjs#playwright
Ozigi v2 Changelog: Building a Modular Agentic Content Engine with Next.js, Supabase, and Playwright
When I first built Ozigi (initially WriterHelper), the goal was simple: give content professionals in...
Dumebi Okolo3 min read
#webdev#ai#nextjs#tooling
I vibe-coded an internal tool that slashed my content workflow by 4 hours
One of the biggest challenges I face as a content expert is repurposing my written blogs for social...
Dumebi Okolo5 min read
#ai#beginners#productivity#tooling
Using Perplexity AI and Gemini 3 (Pro) for Academic Research and Writing
I’m currently in the trenches of my Master’s thesis, focusing on 5G Anomaly Detection using...
Dumebi Okolo3 min read
#typescript#beginners#webdev#writing
Top 5 Headless CMS to Build a Blog in 2026
After doing a lot of research as a technical writer, I have found the top 5 CMS for blogging. Whether...
Dumebi Okolo12 min read
#webdev#ai#vibecoding#beginners
From Vibe Coding to Engineering: Building a Production-Ready Next.js 15 Blog with AI
Dusting off the room because it has been a minute or two since I was in here last! Through last...
Dumebi Okolo6 min read
#machinelearning#ai#agents#beginners
Introduction to AI Agents: A Technical Overview for Beginners
Artificial intelligence has shifted from static prompt–response patterns to systems capable of taking...
Dumebi Okolo6 min read
#watercooler#mentalhealth#wellbeing#devhealth
Migraine Awareness Week 2025: Living With New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH)
September 22nd to September 28th marks Migraine Awareness Week 2025, a week dedicated to raising...
Dumebi Okolo4 min read
#docker#kubernetes#cloud#beginners
Migrating From Docker to Kubernetes: How To Take Your Application from Local to Cloud
Docker and Kubernetes are often mentioned together in modern software development—but they solve...
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#kubernetes#cloud#programming#opensource
Understanding System Scaling With Kubernetes For Beginners
To effectively answer the question “Why Kubernetes,” you need to understand why solutions like...
Dumebi Okolo5 min read
#webdev#javascript#beginners#tutorial
Mastering JavaScript Functions & DOM Manipulation: A Beginner-Friendly Deep Dive
I am a bit ashamed to say that my learning progress hasn't been all that since the last article I...
Dumebi Okolo5 min read
#webdev#javascript#beginners#tutorial
I Started Learning JavaScript Again—A Beginner-Friendly Guide to the Basics
You can tell from the title of this article that I am learning Javascript again from scratch and will...
Dumebi Okolo5 min read
#webdev#javascript#beginners#vibecoding
Vibe Coding 101: I Built A Research Assistant Start-up With v0, Supabase + Grok AI
In the spirit of vibe coding and building something useful without overthinking it, I recently...
Dumebi Okolo3 min read
#webdev#beginners#coding#ai
Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Coding: 2025 Beginner’s Guide to AI‑Driven Development
Simply put, Vibe coding = “see things, say things, run things” (Karpathy). Agentic coding = “set a...
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