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4 hours ago

We're excited to kick off the June Solstice Game Jam, running from June 3 through June 21 and ending right on the solstice itself! Whether you're in the northern hemisphere marking the longest day of the year or in the southern hemisphere observing the shortest, the solstice is a global moment of tr

Is This How We'll Build Websites Soon? (webMCP Live Demo 🚀)

17 hours ago

A few years ago, we started adapting our websites for mobile devices. Then we adapted them for accessibility. And now we may be about to adapt them once again. This time... for AI agents. To see what this could look like in practice, I built a completely serious and absolutely enterprise-ready AI CE

Git-regret 💀 — I Finally Finished the CLI That Reads Your Shame

2 days ago

This is an official submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge. https://ishantgupta30.github.io/git-regret/ .git Directory Every developer has a digital graveyard. It is a hidden directory, usually tucked away in a generic /Developer/Projects folder, filled with half-baked ideas, aban

From vibe coding to clear thinking: what non-technical builders need in the age of AI

2 days ago

Over the past few months, I’ve increasingly noticed something through my network: more people from non-technical backgrounds are building software as AI tooling improves. Designers are prototyping product ideas. Product managers are testing workflows. Founders are building MVPs. Operators are creati

I Rebuilt My Karaoke App So Everyone's Phone Could Be a Remote

3 days ago

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge VKara is a browser-based karaoke room app for singing at home with friends or family. It is not trying to replace YouTube. YouTube is already great at playing videos. It already has almost every karaoke song we need. But YouTube is not r

I Added a 71-Line Black Box to My Python Agent, Then Queried the $200 Crash With DuckDB

3 days ago

The incident started with a boring support automation task. Take a user request, search a private document index, summarize the answer, and hand the result to a reviewer. Nothing heroic. The kind of Python agent you build when the demo is over and the real workflow begins. Then one run got stuck in

I Made My AI Models Argue, Then Let Hermes Be the Judge

4 days ago

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent TL;DR — Ask any judgment call and three different AI models argue it out, then Hermes hands down one verdict, a confidence score, and exactly why they split. Every verdict, dissent, and mind-changed-in-debate is written int

Hermes Agent's 5 Weirdest Superpowers

This post is my submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge #hermesagentchallenge GitHub: NousResearch/hermes-agent Docs: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com https://dev.to/challenges/hermes-agent-2026-05-15 Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode You’ve used AI that forgets ev

Dev Opportunity Radar #1: A $100K AI Grant, Two Fellowships, and an AI Agent Resource

TL;DR I've missed a lot of opportunities simply because I didn't know they existed. So every Friday, I'll share opportunities, programs, events, resources, and other interesting finds that I come across. I know I'll miss things, so if you discover something worth sharing, drop it in the comments. If

🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: May 2026

Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month! Additionally, I will share some posts highlights on what post I am proud of sharing to Dev.to and my top 3 posts that stood out to me this month! Should you use

What was your win this week?

👋👋👋👋 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a promotion! Starting a new project Fixing a tricky bug Went outside on purpose (sunlight is real, apparently) 🚶 Happy Friday!

How to Automate Mobile App Testing Without Writing a Single Line of Code

You don't need to be a developer to automate your mobile app testing. Not in 2026. For years, automated testing was gated behind programming skills. If you wanted to automate a login flow, you needed to write Python or Java, configure Appium, learn XPath, and debug flaky selectors. If your job title

Winner Announcement Delayed for the Gemma 4 Challenge

Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the Gemma 4 Challenge. We were blown away by the volume of submissions we received. This was one of our largest participation rates to date, and we want to make sure every build and post gets the careful review it deserves. As a result

I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It

AI wrote the code in 30 seconds Three lines A simple function I prompted it generated I copied It looked fine Clean syntax Good variable names No obvious errors. I spent the next 5 hours debugging it. The bug wasn't in the logic The AI had made a quiet assumption - that a list would never be empty I

I Thought Coding Was The Job

Two years ago, when I got my first freelance client, I was still in my final semester of college. A guy approached me on LinkedIn because he wanted an app built for some gym equipment he was selling. To this day, he’s probably one of the most professional people I’ve worked with. And being the naive

Top API Gateways for AI Applications and Agentic Workflows (2026 Developer Guide)

7 days ago

A lot of AI apps die in the same place. Not during the prototype phase. They break the moment real users start showing up. That’s usually when developers realize that calling an LLM directly from an app works fine right up until it suddenly doesn’t. One user accidentally burns through your token bu

What Building My Own AI Bot Taught Me About Generative AI

7 days ago

I built a bot trained on my own X bookmarks and likes. Around 50,000 of them, accumulated over years of lurking, arguing, and clicking the save button on things that made me stop scrolling. The technical part isn't complicated in principle. You pull your export, embed the text, build a RAG pipeline,

Next.js 16 Broke My App in 4 Places and None of Them Threw an Error

The CI was green. Build passed. No TypeScript errors. No warnings. Everything looked clean. I clicked deploy and went to make tea. Came back, opened staging, and things were broken in ways that made no sense. A redirect wasn't working. Lint had silently disappeared from the build pipeline. One API r

How Are Developers Actually Using AI At Work?

JSNation is coming soon, and besides my talk (I’ll drop the link in the comments so I don’t spam you with it for the tenth time 😅), there are also discussion rooms. And somehow, I got invited to two of them. Now, a normal person would probably stop for a second and think: “Do I even have time for t

Reviving a 12K+ Star Abandoned Library: toastr-next v3 🍞

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge toastr-next v3 a complete revival of CodeSeven/toastr, one of the most-starred abandoned JavaScript libraries on GitHub with 12,000+ stars and no meaningful commits since 2016. toastr was the go-to notification library for millions of de

Can Google Antigravity 2.0 Pass the "Napkin Challenge"? 📝🚀

🚀 From Napkin Sketch to data-driven real-estate advisor Agent in Under 40 Minutes? 🚀 Can a coding agent really work autonomously on complicated problems without human intervention? I decided to put Google’s new Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 to the test: The Napkin Challenge. 📝 The goal: Build an

An LLM API call, in 4 GIFs

This is the first post of series Building TinyAgent where we are going to build a small agent from scratch in Node.js with no frameworks just the API calls. But before we write an agent, we need to understand what actually happens when you call an LLM. If you've only ever used a SDK, you've probably

You Don’t Need Microservices (Yet): A Reality Check for Devs