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I heard about DEV a while back from a former colleague who was posting regularly back then. She won a...

Over the past weeks, I’ve been sharing a series of posts that gravitate around one question: How do...

AI makes us faster, but does it make us better engineers, or just more dependent? As a follow-up...

After posting several articles about the impact of AI on developers and sharing resources to help...

I am currently preparing for Software Engineer interviews. Like many developers, my first instinct...

Last week, Toronto hosted Tech Week. A city-wide celebration filled with events and workshops...

Over the past few months, I’ve increasingly noticed something through my network: more people from...

Over the past few years, my workflow as an engineer has changed a lot. I went from the occasional...

Should you use Gemma 4 for your Development? A Multiversal Analysis to Determine if Gemma 4 is...

Have you ever been thrown into an unfamiliar codebase while deadlines got tighter, stress levels...

I've seen countless prompting trends and prompt packs to use but most discussions around prompt...

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on something: The question for most developers is no longer "Are you...

Most AI content today feels flat. We read threads. We skim blog posts. We copy prompts. But very...

Building fast with AI is easy but building something you can actually run, inspect, and trust is...

I designed a "Thinking Guide" for engineers building with AI. And looking for your feedback. We’re...

I have been following the developments of Openclaw and hadn't properly played around with it until...

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built Most of us have sat...

If I had to learn how to code today from scratch, I’m not sure I would learn it properly. Not...

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience A trip down...

It’s 5pm. My event starts in an hour. Plenty of time to build an app, right? I’m currently...

A lot of the conversation around AI agents has drifted toward increasingly complex frameworks,...

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community I’m travelling this weekend, so this...

Is it just me, or are tech events and communities on the rise? I’ve been thinking about this lately,...

I was recently gifted a pair of AI glasses. This is not the kind of purchase I would make for myself....

This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built I vibe coded...

I recently bought a starter kit for Arduino to learn robotics. I was curious to learn some basic...

ChatGPT recently opened submissions for their Apps feature to developers, which is a way to display...

There’s a lot of noise right now around AI and coding. On one side, you’ll hear fear: “AI will make...

I used to end my weeks with a list of commits and a vague sense of progress. But when things went...

AI can make your product feel elevated. It can also make it feel unreliable, expensive, and risky. So...