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Your Career Matters. So Does the Person Building It.
TL;DR Tech has taught me many things over the years. It taught me how to learn new technologies,...
Hemapriya Kanagala13 min read
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Hemapriya Kanagala
Hey, I'm Hema đź‘‹ Developer, writer, and creator of Dev Opportunity Radar, a weekly series published every Friday on DEV, helping people discover opportunities they might otherwise miss.
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Hemapriya Kanagala13 min read
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Dev Opportunity Radar #6: Y Combinator Startup School, Open Source AI Grants, and a $60K APAC Hackathon
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
Hemapriya Kanagala9 min read
#discuss#ai#developers#softwareengineering
Reading Anthropic's "When AI Builds Itself" Changed How I Think About AI and Software Engineering
TL;DR Anthropic recently published When AI Builds Itself, an essay explaining how AI is...
Hemapriya Kanagala13 min read
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Dev Opportunity Radar #5: A Fully Funded Trip to AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Career Launchpad, and a $1,000 Award
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
Hemapriya Kanagala9 min read
#community#beginners#discuss#career
I Wish I Had Started Documenting My Tech Journey Earlier
TL;DR For a long time, I told myself I would start documenting my journey later. I thought I needed...
Hemapriya Kanagala10 min read
#discuss#community#resources#opportunities
Dev Opportunity Radar #4: Anthropic Fellows, $30K for Founders, and AWS She Builds
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
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Letters to Tomorrow: A June Solstice Game About the Things We Carry Into Tomorrow
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam 🎮 Play the Game: Letters to Tomorrow 💻 Source...
Hemapriya Kanagala10 min read
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Dev Opportunity Radar #3: Neo Scholars, a $2M AI Challenge, and an $85K AI Fellowship
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#discuss#community#beginners#career
The Most Valuable Thing I Found in Tech Wasn't an Opportunity
TL;DR As an international student in the United States, I joined tech communities hoping to find...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#discuss#community#opportunities#resources
Dev Opportunity Radar #2: A Fully-Funded Residency in Finland, AI Research Program, and a $60K Hackathon
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#discuss#community#opportunities#resources
Dev Opportunity Radar #1: A $100K AI Grant, Two Fellowships, and an AI Agent Resource
TL;DR I've missed a lot of opportunities simply because I didn't know they existed. So every...
Hemapriya Kanagala6 min read
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Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent TL;DR Traditional...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
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Frameworks Are No Longer Being Designed Only for Humans
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge TL;DR After watching the Google I/O 2026...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#hermesagentchallenge#devchallenge#agents#ai
Your Tools Don't Learn You. This One Does.
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge TL;DR Most AI agents forget everything the...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#discuss#programming#career#ai
The Last Developer Museum: From Stack Overflow to AI
Welcome to the Museum of Software Development. Please keep your hands away from the exhibits. Some...
Hemapriya Kanagala6 min read
#devchallenge#gemmachallenge#gemma#discuss
Gemma 4 and the Economics of AI Access
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 TL;DR For a lot of developers...
Hemapriya Kanagala7 min read
#devchallenge#gemmachallenge#gemma#ai
Why Gemma 4 Matters More Than Its Benchmarks
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 TL;DR Everyone's talking about...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
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Your AI Agent Crashed at 2 AM. Here’s How Google Fixes It.
This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge TL;DR AI agents don’t...
Hemapriya Kanagala8 min read
#web3#solidity#ethereum#beginners
How I Built a Blockchain User Profile with Solidity (and You Can Too)
This is a smart contract I wrote using Solidity that lets people register and update their profile on...
Hemapriya Kanagala3 min read
#blockchain#web3#cryptocurrency#beginners
What Actually Happens When You Make a Blockchain Transaction?
Welcome back! If you read Article 1: A Beginner’s Guide to How Blockchain Actually Works, we walked...
Hemapriya Kanagala5 min read
#blockchain#web3#beginners#cryptocurrency
A Beginner’s Guide to How Blockchain Actually Works
If you've ever heard the word "blockchain" and thought, “Sounds complicated... probably not for me,”...
Hemapriya Kanagala4 min readAdvertisement