#devchallenge#gamechallenge#gamedev#javascript
How I Built a Turing inspired Treasure-Run Game Where Australia Saves the Sun
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built For this game jam, I...
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I build intelligent systems, design tech strategies, and occasionally pretend I knew what I was doing all along.
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#agents#ai#security#discuss
Is Zero Trust Enough for Agentic Systems?
I’ve always had a soft spot for authentication systems. About seven years ago, I started working on...
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#hermesagentchallenge#devchallenge#agents
Building an Offline-First Bushfire Response Platform With Hermes Agent
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...
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#devchallenge#githubchallenge#machinelearning#ai
From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Project...
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#devchallenge#gemmachallenge#gemma#agents
I Built a Multi-Agent AI Tribunal with Gemma 4
What If AI Agents Put Each Other on Trial? This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build...
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#devchallenge#cloudnextchallenge#googlecloud#agents
I Rethought My Sustainability App After Google Cloud Next ’26 — and my architecture broke (in a good way)
This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge A few days ago, I shipped...
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#devchallenge#openclawchallenge#ai#eventdriven
I built my own event bus for a sustainability app — here's what I learned about agent automation using OpenClaw
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge. What I Built PlanetLedger is a...
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#devchallenge#weekendchallenge#auth0challenge#githubcopilot
I built PlanetLedger — an app that reveals the environmental impact hidden in your transactions.
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition What I Built PlanetLedger —...
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#idris#programming#discuss#webdev
Revisiting Idris in 2026: Is It Ready for Real Work?
Idris has always promised something bold: encode correctness directly into the type system. In 2026,...
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#devchallenge#418challenge#showdev#gemini
Fourbidden: A Serious AI Solution to 2+2, With Maximum Ceremony and No Resolution
This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built I built Fourbidden, a...
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#devchallenge#notionchallenge#mcp#ai
Big drop for EchoHR 🚀 🔧 Postgres queue + worker, idempotent + HMAC webhooks, retries/backoff, metrics ✨ Cleaner UX with hero video, logo, and clearer lifecycle ⚙️ More reliable setup + Docker flow (migrate seed worker) Check out the blog for more 👇
I Built EchoHR: The HR System That Doesn’t Ghost You ujja...
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#devchallenge#wecoded#dei#career
The Enablers Who Helped Me Code Forward
This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience Sometimes the difference...
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#devchallenge#geminireflections#gemini#llm
Rethinking AI Assistants: A Privacy-First Approach with Google Gemini
Building a Privacy-First Mobile Speech Assistant Using Google...
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#devchallenge#weekendchallenge#showdev
CommonGround: Designing Digital Spaces for Safety, Healing, and Connection
Building Safer Online Spaces with CommonGround ujja ・ Feb...
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#csharp#typescript#docker#dotnet
What It Really Takes to Migrate 20+ Domains and 100+ SQL Tables from .NET to GraphQL
How We’re Surviving 20+ Domains and 100+ SQL Tables While...
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#csharp#typescript#docker#dotnet
[UPDATED] How We’re Surviving 20+ Domains and 100+ SQL Tables While Migrating Our Legacy .NET Backend to GraphQL
Introduction In Part 1 – How We’re Surviving 600+ Legacy Angular Components While...
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#devchallenge#githubchallenge#cli#githubcopilot
Tech for good, built and shared on DEV 💛. I built a stutter-friendly app for calm, supportive, judgment-free speaking practice, with gentle feedback and privacy-first design at its core. Built with Elm, Elixir, and Copilot CLI. Thoughts?
I built a Stutter-Friendly App in 1 Day with Elm, Elixir, and...
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#webdev#ai#vibecoding#discuss
Is Creativity Dying in the Age of AI-Generated Websites?
Lately, I’ve been noticing a curious trend. I visit one website, and then another, and… it’s almost...
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#devchallenge#githubchallenge#cli#githubcopilot
Sharing this because the mission matters 💛 I built a stutter friendly app that makes speaking practice calm, supportive, and judgment free, with gentle feedback and privacy first design at its core. It's built with Elm, Elixir, and Copilot CLI. Thoughts?
I built a Stutter-Friendly App in 1 Day with Elm, Elixir, and...
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#graphql#nextjs#angular#webdev
We’ve leaned on generative AI to make navigating our legacy Angular code less painful. The stats in this blog, like which components are purely legacy versus newly added are analyzed by Claude Code.
How We’re Surviving 600+ Legacy Angular Components While...
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#graphql#nextjs#angular#webdev
How We’re Surviving 600+ Legacy Angular Components While Migrating to Next.js, GraphQL, and a Monorepo
Introduction If you've worked on a long-lived frontend, you already know the story. The...
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#discuss#community#watercooler#mentalhealth
How dev.to became my comfortable corner of the internet (and my New Year resolution)
It has been a little over 10 years since I deleted my Facebook account. No long post. No...
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#css#discuss#react#tailwindcss
Shadow DOM Tailwind and shadcn/ui all have their strengths, but they do not always play nicely together. Sometimes you just have to compromise. Use Shadow DOM only for simple components, let portals work normally, and accept a bit of global CSS.
I Know This Will Upset Some Devs, but Tailwind + Shadcn/ui +...
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#css#discuss#react#tailwindcss
I Know This Will Upset Some Devs, but Tailwind + Shadcn/ui + Shadow DOM = Pain
This recent post Is Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026? (by @sylwia-lask) really hit me,...
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#programming#discuss#coding#software
Is the language war even real?
Every few years, the tech world seems to restart the same argument. Java vs C#. Python vs JavaScript....
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#ai#mcp#discuss#mobile
Has anyone actually shipped a free offline mobile LLM?
Offline, free, lightweight mobile LLM. Is it actually real? I’m genuinely curious. Has...
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#webdev#ai#powerfuldevs#discuss
Building an AI-Powered Authentication System with Temporal.io
The Vision: Pure Temporal, AI-Enhanced Authentication Over the past few days, I’ve been...
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#webdev#ai#productivity#discuss
I breezed through AI generated docs because they were effortless, but returning weeks later I struggled to understand them. Documentation should stick. It should be clear even a year later.
AI, Confluence Docs, and READMEs: Why AI Written Docs End Up...
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#webdev#ai#productivity#discuss
I relied on AI-generated docs because they were fast and effortless. But when I came back to them weeks later, I struggled to understand the gist. Documentation should stick, not just exist. Have you faced similar challenges with AI-generated docs?
AI, Confluence Docs, and READMEs: Why AI Written Docs End Up...
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