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Developer productivity hacks include the Two-Terminal Rule to reduce context switching, timeboxing with natural work boundaries, and the 15-Minute Rule to combat procrastination and rabbit holes. 1 post
WebAssembly (WASM) complements JavaScript for heavy computations like physics simulations, but JavaScript remains fast for typical frontend apps and DOM interactions. 1 post
AI agent architectures should separate concerns, with upstream components handling security and business logic, not directly connecting clients to agents for production systems. 1 post
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TOON vs JSON: A Token-Optimized Data Format for Reducing LLM Costs
Last month, I watched a production RAG pipeline burn $1940 in one weekend. A single 500-row customer table, encoded the usual way in classic JSON, did the damage. The exact same data would have cost $760 in TOON. Same model. Same answers. Same latency. 61 % fewer tokens. You might have felt it yours
Top 10 Productivity Hacks Every Developer Should Know 🚀
Let me tell you about a Tuesday that changed everything. I was three hours into what should have been a 30-minute bug fix. My terminal had 47 tabs open. I'd restarted my local server six times. My coffee had gone cold twice. And somewhere between Stack Overflow tab number 23 and a passive-aggressive
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 👏 Nobody Writes Clean Code. We All Just Pretend Sylwia Laskowska ・ Dec 1 #webdev #programming #productivity
Will WebAssembly Kill JavaScript? Let’s Find Out (+ Live Demo) 🚀
For at least 8 years now, I’ve been hearing about the imminent death of frontend - or at least JavaScript. One of the tools that is supposedly going to wipe it out is WebAssembly (WASM from now on). A long time ago I was told that JavaScript is basically legacy already and that we’ll soon be writing
How I Cut My Debugging Time in Half as a Front-End Developer (A Practical Guide)
Debugging is one of those things every developer secretly knows eats up far more time than we’d like to admit. Some studies estimate that up to 50% of a developer’s time is spent tracking down bugs, deciphering cryptic console messages, jumping between tools, and trying to figure out why something w
We Need To Talk About AI Agent Architectures
AI agents are getting easier to build and host. With agentic frameworks and cloud-based hosting environments, you can deploy an agent to the cloud in an afternoon. It is now possible to assemble a multi-agent setup with memory, observability, and MCP connected tools without a huge amount of code or
Lyria RealTime: The Developer’s Guide to Infinite Music Streaming
You love generating static songs with classic text to music models? Prepare to conduct a never-ending symphony. Introducing Lyria RealTime, Google DeepMind’s experimental model that doesn't just generate music—it jams with you like it did during the Toro y Moi IO pre-show: While traditional musi
Easily Build a Frontend for your AWS Strands Agents using AG-UI in 30 minutes
TL;DR In this guide, you will learn how to build a frontend for your AWS Strands Agents using AG-UI Protocol and CopilotKit. AWS Strands will power the AI agents backend, while CopilotKit powers the frontend, and then AG-UI creates a bridge that enables the frontend to communicate with the backend
Why Is Crystal Compilation So Slow?
Introduction The Crystal programming language is notorious for its slow compilation times. But have you ever wondered where Crystal actually spends most of its compilation time? Figure: Crystal uses LLVM as its backend The Crystal compiler's compilation process consists of the following stages: n
Reatom: State Management That Grows With You
The Fragmentation Problem Modern frontend development has a familiar pattern: Start with simple useState hooks Need shared state? Add Context Context re-renders too much? Add a state manager State manager doesn't handle async well? Add a data fetching library Need forms? Another library Routes nee
The Art of Vibe Coding With Actual Discipline
Why speed feels great but structure keeps you sane Every day I see developers firing off prompts to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and every other AI Powered editor out there. The speed is addictive. You get instant wins, quick fixes, and a sense that you’re moving faster than ever. But what this
Gemini 3 is Now Available as an OCR Model in Tensorlake
Gemini 3 is now available within Tensorlake Google’s Gemini model since 2.5 Flash has been great at Document Parsing. The latest Gemini 3 pushes the envelope even further. It has the lowest edit distance(0.115) on OmniDocBench compared to GPT-5.1(0.147) and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Starting today, you c
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
How to Accept Payments with Nuxt and Stripe
Accepting payments is a critical feature for many web applications. If you're using Nuxt, you might be looking for a clean way to integrate Stripe. In this guide, we'll walk through building a complete payment flow using vue-stripe (a wrapper for Stripe.js with 1:1 parity with the React SDK) and Nux
Hands-on with Gemma 3 on Google Cloud
The landscape of generative AI is shifting. While proprietary APIs are powerful, there is a growing demand for open models—models where the architecture and weights are publicly available. This shift puts control back in the hands of developers, offering transparency, data privacy, and the ability t
Our current challenges add up to $9,000 in total prizes! Give one a try this weekend.
Happy Friday! I just wanted to share the four challenges we have happening right now, ahead of the weekend. Each has its own unique focus and ways of stretching your creativity and broadening your skills. Build intelligent applications that work seamlessly across multiple platforms! This challenge i
Building a Stunning Travel Agency Landing Page with Uno Platform — My WOW Factor Challenge Submission 🤩
This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor After finishing my first project for the Uno Platform Hot Design Challenge, the Instagram-style profile page, I thought the journey was over. But something unexpected happened. I actually enjoyed the process so much that
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 Finally understanding a concept that confused you 💡 Happy Friday!
Figma MCP: sou designer, o que eu tenho a ver?
Se você trabalha com produto, já percebeu que entre o “nosso design está pronto!” e o “isso está no ar!” existe um universo paralelo de desalinhamentos, ajustes de última hora e aquele eterno vai e volta entre Figma e código. Nada mais normal. Mas agora temos um novo personagem nessa história: o Fig
Your First AI Application is Easier Than You Think
If you're a developer, you've seen generative AI everywhere. It can feel like a complex world of models and advanced concepts. It can be difficult to know where to actually start. The good news is that building your first AI-powered application is more accessible than you might imagine. You don't ne
You can now use YouTube videos as your cover video on DEV Posts (Also Mux and Twitch videos)
You can now use a YouTube video as the cover for your post—meaning it will appear above the title and feature prominently in the feed. Just go to create a post via /new, click Cover Video Link, and paste the URL! While YouTube is the most popular video embed, we also support Twitch (permalinked vide
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
re:Invent25, jour 1 : « boom »
Je suis le "What's new" d'AWS de façon quasi quotidienne depuis plus de 7 ans. J'ai trouvé certaines éditions de re:Invent excitantes, d'autres décevantes.. mais j'ai rarement éprouvé le sentiment de submersion face à l'explosion d'annonces du jour. L'annonce la plus importante de la Keynote de Mat
9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I'm Excited About
SO much has shipped so far during this re:Invent season, and there's so much still to come -- I wanted to do a quick write up of some of my favorites from the pre:Invent season and the keynote this morning. $ aws login My estimate is this saves ~15 mins of work to get logged in using the AWS CLI.
9 Launches from re:Invent Season I'm Excited About (so far!)
SO much has shipped so far during this re:Invent season -- I wanted to do a quick write up of some of my favorites. $ aws login My estimate is this saves ~15 mins of work to get logged in using the AWS CLI. It will bring you to the AWS sign in page in the browse, give you temporary credentials, an