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8 days ago

I suppose after three years, we can consider my review of JavaScript Frameworks an annual event now. For 2025, I had a hard time writing the article because there was a sobering reality that many of the ideas we tried wouldn’t get us all the way to the finish line. But sometimes we all need a realit

I built an app in every frontend framework

9 days ago

TL;DR Which framework should you use? Well, that depends on what you're developing and your prioritie are. But I made a quick comparison tool to help you find the perfect stack for your project. See: Stack Match. Just want the numbers? I also built the same app using 10 different frameworks, and b

I Built a Desktop App That Commits to GitHub So I Don’t Have To Lie About Consistency

9 days ago

Let’s be honest for a second. They are a vibe metric. I got tired of pretending otherwise, so I built a desktop app that automates commits for me. Not to fake work, but to remove the mental overhead of “oh no I forgot to commit today.” This app runs locally, schedules commits, and pushes them direc

An Honest Review of Google Antigravity

9 days ago

So, for the last year, if you wanted the best AI coding experience, you were paying $20 a month for Cursor. It’s been the king. But there is a new competitor in the ring. And yes, it’s a VS Code fork. But no, it’s not from some random startup. It’s from Google. It’s called Antigravity. And right now

Top Open Source Projects That Will Dominate 2026

11 days ago

2025 was wild. 2026? It's about to get wilder. The open source ecosystem is exploding with innovation. AI is reshaping development workflows. New frameworks are challenging old guards. And developers are building tools that make our lives infinitely easier. Here are the top open source projects you

The Complete Full-Stack Developer Roadmap for 2026 🚀

11 days ago

hanzla-beig.netlify.app Look, I'm going to be honest with you from the start. Becoming a full-stack developer in 2026 is both easier and harder than it's ever been. Easier because the tools are better, the resources are abundant, and you can ship production code faster

I Built a Tool to Stop Wasting Time on Toxic Open Source Projects

16 days ago

The Motivation After contributing to several open source projects, I realized some of them have serious issues. Many maintainers don't provide help when you submit pull requests, and you end up wrestling with automated code reviews just to show one commit on your GitHub profile. So this time, inst

Coding Without Pressure: How Slowing Down Helped Me Learn Faster

20 days ago

For a long time, I thought learning to code had to feel intense. So I pushed harder. And somehow… I learned less. It took me a while to realize this simple truth... I wasn’t failing because I was slow; I was failing because I wouldn’t let myself slow down. When you’re learning to code, there’s an i

Where we're going, we don't need chatbots: introducing the Antigravity IDE 🚀

22 days ago

Lately, I’ve been living in a new world—specifically, a world called Antigravity. It’s the agent-first IDE that the Google DeepMind team has been building, and honestly? It’s completely ruined "normal" coding for me. We talk a lot about AI in development, but most of the time this just ends up bein

From Idea to Launch: How Developers Can Build Successful Startups

24 days ago

Visit My portfolio,Read Blogs, Subscribe Newsletter & Get Books For Free hanzla-beig.netlify.app 12 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Developers in 2026 🚀 TheBitForge ・ Dec 26 '25 #discuss #programming #wordpress #javascript I remember the e

5 Terminal Commands That Saved Me Hours of Clicking

When I first started coding, I was terrified of the terminal. That blank black screen with the blinking green cursor? It looked like something out of The Matrix, something only "senior engineers" with grey beards knew how to use. Me? I loved my mouse. I loved my GUI. I was a professional at dragging

5 YouTube Channels Every Programmer Should Follow in 2025!

Spent hours debugging only to find the solution in a 10-minute YouTube video? Yeah, me too. The truth is, some of the best programming lessons don’t come from expensive courses or thick textbooks. They come from developers who’ve been in the trenches, made the mistakes, and are willing to share what

6 Must-Read Microservices and Design Patterns Books for Senior Developers

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article. Hello devs, Design patterns are an essential topic for object-oriented programmers, like Java and C++ developers. It becomes even more i

Beyond Coding: Your Accountability Buddy with Claude Code Skill

After months of demanding work and endless context-switching recently, it got me thinking: out of the 1001 personal learning topics, build ideas, and reading lists I've been wanting to tackle over the past 7-8 months - what have I actually achieved? How am I progressing? Have I drifted? Are those st

Linux Without Fanboyism: An Honest Developer’s Perspective

Introduction As a software engineer, I try not to get too attached to a single operating system. Computers are just tools we use to get the job done, and unless your work depends on platform-specific software, most modern operating systems will serve you well. Whenever possible, I like to use more

The Vibe Coding Paradox

My last PR for Nudges was +96 −312, touched 38 files, and was about 90% vibe coded. And I’m confident in it. While I was gliding through Hyrule, two different AI agents were quietly refactoring Kafka consumers, validating payload shapes, and committing changes—clean, scoped, and production-ready. An

Top 10 Productivity Hacks Every Developer Should Know 🚀

Visit My portfolio,Read Blogs, Subscribe Newsletter & Get Books For Free hanzla-beig.netlify.app 📅 Mark Your Calendar: The Startup Article Every Developer Needs is Coming TheBitForge ・ Dec 12 '25 #discuss #programming #javascript #python L

12 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

TL;DR It's been a while since I've done a collection, but today let's look at 12 new and not-so-new projects that can really help you in development. They touch on different areas of development, but we will mainly talk about web development. If there's a project worth adding to the next collectio

AWS DevOps Agent Explained: Architecture, Setup, and Real Root-Cause Demo (CloudWatch + EKS)

Amazon Web Services(AWS) launched Frontier agents that are autonoumous systems during re:Invent 2025 which achieve various use cases goals, scale massively to tackle concurrent tasks, and run persistently for hours or days without intervention. In this blog we will talk about one of the frontier age

The Complete Guide to System Design in 2026

I've spent the better part of a decade writing about different ways to help engineers learn new skills and level up their careers. So if we've crossed paths before, you might already know that I have two great passions in life: The first is System Design. Put simply, System Design is the process o

DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux: Pitch Your Projects! $3,000 in Prizes. 🎥

We are so thrilled to introduce DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge presented by Mux! Running through January 4, this challenge invites you to record a 1-minute pitch video about your project and share it with the community. Consider this our version of "Shark Tank" but without the sharks. Hav

Advent of Cyber 2025: Day 1 Writeup & SideQuest | TryHackMe

Another year has passed by 🍁 autumn leaves are beginning to... leave :) and whatever cringe poetry Shakespeare did or did not say! Advent of Cyber takes its name from Advent of Code. If you are more of a programmer rather than a security/networking/linux enthusiast, then stay still! See if this stu

How I Actually Use AI Agents As A Senior Frontend Dev (Without Breaking Prod)

2 months ago

Every week there’s a new “AI for developers” video, but in real projects the question is simpler: how do you use these tools without slowing yourself down or shipping garbage to production? Over the last year, working across large Next.js frontends and Python FastAPI backends, a few patterns have co

Nano-Banana Pro: Prompting Guide & Strategies

2 months ago

Nano-Banana Pro is a significant leap forward from previous generation models, moving from "fun" image generation to "functional" professional asset production. It excels in text rendering, character consistency, visual synthesis, world knowledge (Search), and high-resolution (4K) output. Following

Modern Web Design Styles Every Frontend Developer Must Know (2025 Guide) Part 2