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A New Chapter: DEV is Joining Forces with Major League Hacking (MLH)
Hey everyone, I have some massive news to share today, and I couldn't be more excited to finally type these words. DEV is officially joining forces and becoming part of the Major League Hacking (MLH) organization. It has been quite an adventure getting to this point, and I view today not as an end,
The Future of Software Has a Lot More Builders. They’re Going to Need a Home.
I have some big news to share today: Major League Hacking has acquired DEV (dev.to), the developer community platform where millions of developers share technical knowledge, learn from each other, and grow together. This is one of the biggest moves in MLH's 12-year history, and it's been a long time
I’ve Seen This Architecture Before. It Ends in Tears.
I’ve been writing software long enough to know one eternal truth: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution. You know this story. You add: // TODO: replace with proper solution later Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode That was 2019. It’s now handling 38%
Top 5 LiteLLM Alternatives in 2026
If you’ve used LiteLLM for any serious amount of time, you probably appreciate what it does well: it simplifies multi-provider LLM integration and gives you a clean abstraction layer. But as projects scale, requirements change. In 2026, teams care about more than just routing requests between OpenAI
Web Development Is More Than Frontend and Backend (Here’s What Actually Matters)
For a long time, I thought web development was simple. Frontend. HTML, CSS, JavaScript on one side. If I could move data from the backend to the UI, I thought I was “doing web development.” So I focused on features. And somehow… my projects still felt unfinished. It took me a while to realize this s
Nike Was Right: The Only Coding Advice You Actually Need
I am pretty sure anyone who opens this would wonder what a shoe brand has got to do with coding? But just hear me out on this one. Let me start by saying a story that even led to me writing this in the first place. I spent about three hours yesterday staring at a blank VS Code window on my pc. Well
How a DEV Friend and I Brought Two Avatars to Life
I met @webdeveloperhyper on the DEV Community, and like most good internet collaborations, it started casually. A few messages. Some feedback. Valuable guidance. Then at some point, the conversation shifted from “this looks cool” to “let’s make something fun together.” We didn’t over-plan it. We jus
Your Senior Engineer Is Not 10x. He’s a 0.1ms Cache.
I have been writing software long enough to remember when deploying meant FTP. I have worked with: “10x engineers” “Rockstar developers” “Ninjas” “Full-stack wizards” And one guy who introduced himself as a “Code Shaman” None of them impressed me. The quiet senior who deleted 3,000 lines of code did
The Gatekeeping Panic: What AI Actually Threatens in Software Development
"If you use AI, you're not a real developer." Same energy as every gatekeeping panic before it: Stack Overflow? Not a real programmer. Frameworks? Not a real programmer. High-level languages? Not a real programmer. IDEs with autocomplete? Not a real programmer. The tools change. The panic doesn't. T
Next.js Finally Has Competition
Next.js made React easy. TanStack Start made React feel like React again. If you're picking a framework for something real in February 2026, this is the article I wish someone had written for me. Not a feature matrix. Not a "both are great" dodge. I did the research so you don't have to redo it. Eve
Git Blamed Me, CSS Gaslit Me, Node Ghosted Me, React Re-rendered My Trauma
I have been writing code long enough to remember when “version control” meant emailing final_final_v3_REAL.zip. Over the years I’ve learned something important: The compiler may be strict. The frontend stack is emotionally manipulative. Let’s talk about it. Git doesn’t judge you. It simply remembers
Claude Code for Fullstack Development: The 3 Things You Actually Need
How Can I Use Claude Code Effectively? There's a lot of hype around vibe coding with Claude Code. The good news is that it's warranted. Claude Code can take care of some surprisingly complex coding tasks. The bad news is that it's over-hyped, with claims of amazing apps being vibe coded in a coupl
What was your win this week??
👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a promotion! Starting a new project Fixing a tricky bug Cooking a meal that actually looked like the recipe photo 🍳 Happy Friday!
Making AI Workflows Predictable with MCP and Bifrost🔥
LLM development quickly expanded beyond simple experiments. Today, AI systems are not just text generation, but full-fledged production applications that work with APIs, databases, files, and internal services. MCP (Model Context Protocol) has become a standard that unifies the interaction of models
Remember Your First Computer Book?
We all had that first computer book, the one that opened our eyes to the digital universe. Whether it taught coding, hardware, or just how to make a program run without error, it connected us to a shared experience: the wonder of learning something new and exciting for the very first time. My first
Duplicate “Follow” Button Text in User Profile Hover Card
Description: While navigating the Dev.to feed, I noticed a UI inconsistency: the Follow button in the user profile hover card displays duplicated text. When hovering over a user’s avatar or username, the tooltip preview shows overlapping “Follow” labels, e.g., FollowFollow. This seems to be a fron
Top 5 LLM Gateways for Production in 2026 (A Deep, Practical Comparison)
If you’re building with LLMs in 2026, the hard part is no longer “Which model should we use?” It’s everything around the model. Latency spikes. Provider outages. Surprise bills. Inconsistent behavior across environments. Teams accidentally shipping GPT-4 where GPT-4o-mini would’ve been fine. Debuggi
I Built a SaaS in 30 Days. Here’s Exactly What Happened.
Thirty days ago I had: No landing page No logo No users No idea if anyone cared Today I have: 312 signups 41 paying users $1,287 MRR A product I almost quit three times This is the honest breakdown. No hype. No fake growth curve. Just what actually happened. I built a simple developer to
Your "Read Later" list is a graveyard. It is time to stop hoarding.
You have a tab open right now that you have been meaning to read for three weeks. You have a "Read Later" folder with 500 links you haven't touched since 2023. We treat information like fast food. We see a headline, we get a dopamine hit, and we click "Save." We feel productive. We feel like we have
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #03
After installing Ubuntu on my laptop mainly for this linux learning journey, I left it there for about almost two weeks (not my fault! had to focus on some uni work). I am continuing my journey through the Linux Foundation course, for the DevOps from Scratch journey. Today I am looking at chapter 4.
I Stopped Trying to Learn Every DevOps Tool: And Started Building a Platform Instead
The DevOps Hero Burnout is Real Let's be real for a second. being a student and juggling school work with external studies is the TOUGEST thing ever, my first few months in the DevOps world felt like a total nightmare. Every roadmap I looked at was just a giant wall of logos: Docker, Kubernetes, Ter
The Cloud Is Not Your Computer: Why Go and Rust Developers Secretly Miss the Monolith
I have deployed code to: Bare metal servers that screamed when the fan failed. VPS machines that mysteriously rebooted at 3AM. Kubernetes clusters that required three YAML sacrifices and a Helm incantation. And of course, AWS — where the bill is the only truly consistent runtime. And after years of
ASCII Whisper: Local P2P Chat with Sound FX and Battleship
This is a group submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge We created a P2P chat that runs on your local network. We enabled a “video feed” capability in the terminal by translating the image from your device camera into low resolution ascii with a certain number of “frames per second”. Python
Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week
Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week. Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏 The Compiler Never Used Sarcasm: Why AI Feels Unsafe to the Neurodivergent Coder Brian Tarbox ・ Feb 2 #ai #discuss
One Month at a Startup: What Stayed With Me After I Left
I started my first job at a startup at the beginning of January. The pay was low, the commute was long, and I knew it wasn’t ideal. I told myself it was temporary. I wanted exposure, real responsibility, and a chance to operate inside a fast-moving environment instead of just preparing for one. At f