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#gamedev#devchallenge#gamechallenge

PASS: a solstice interrogation

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam To convince the interrogator I was human, I...

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My AI Tool Generated Garbage JSX. So I Grounded It in shadcn/ui and Finally Shipped It.

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge. Paste a screenshot of any UI. Get...

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#hermesagentchallenge#devchallenge#agents

The Becoming: I gave an AI a blank sketchbook and it invented its own art style

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge. "The harder I committed to surgical precision,...

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Fork: I made an AI live out both sides of a hard decision, in parallel

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge. (Demo video below.) What I...

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#career#beginners#discuss#productivity

My Bartending Job Taught Me More About Software Than School Did

Seven years slinging drinks taught me skills my CS degree never touched

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#webdev#javascript#career#react

I built HireReady: AI voice interviews + spaced repetition for tech interview prep

Hey DEV community! I just launched HireReady and wanted to share it with you. What is...

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#webdev#ai#documentation#javascript

How I Built an AI Documentation Engine with Tree-sitter, Claude AI, and RAG

Documentation is every developer’s least favorite task. We all agree it’s important. We all intend...

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#githubcopilotclichallenge#a11y#mcp#typescript

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I Built the First A11y CLI That Auto-Fixes Code While You Type...

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I Built the First A11y CLI That Auto-Fixes Code While You Type (+ Teaches Copilot Your Patterns)

ally: Real-time accessibility auto-fix with impact scoring, plus a custom MCP server that makes GitHub Copilot generate WCAG-compliant code matching your codebase

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Specter: Give Your Codebase a Voice

A CLI that builds a knowledge graph and lets your codebase speak in first person. 66 commands, 14 MCP tools, and a ghost.

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TimeSlipSearch: A Conversational Time Machine for Pop Culture

Ask for any date in plain English and get an instant cultural snapshot, powered by Algolia multi-index retrieval.

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ContradictMe: An AI That Disagrees With You (For Good)

A consumer-facing conversational app built with Algolia Agent Studio that steel-mans counterarguments with fast retrieval, citations, and quality scores.

Elizabeth Stein4 min read

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