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13 hours ago

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition 📌 TL;DR I found this challenge on the very last day, so I knew I probably wouldn't finish before the submission deadline. That means I don't expect this project to be considered, but I still wanted to finish it because this challenge gave

Como escolher eventos de tecnologia para participar

15 hours ago

Quando comecei a ir a eventos de tecnologia, estava na faculdade e ia a todos os gratuitos ou que custavam, no máximo, 100 reais. Porém, eu estava começando em TI e sabia tão pouco sobre a área em que eu queria atuar, logo qualquer evento despertava minha curiosidade. Os anos passaram e eu me tornei

The Myth of the Post-Documentation Era

17 hours ago

There is a growing sentiment in engineering circles right now that documentation is a relic of the past. The argument usually goes something like this: We’re living in the era of agent-driven development. If an AI agent can read the raw source code or parse an OpenAPI specification instantly, why wa

Dev Opportunity Radar #7: $1,000 Solo Grants, Free Claude Max for Open Source Contributors, and an MLH Hackathon

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities, resources, communities, and interesting finds that I come across, with the goal of helping people discover things they might otherwise miss. This week's edition includes microgrants for solo builders, A

I Got Tired of Maintaining Frontend Code. So I Built a Declarative UI Runtime.

Here is a question that sounds simple until you've actually shipped a UI: how many files does it take before nobody on the team, including you, can confidently say what happens when you click a button? For me, the answer turned out to be somewhere around two hundred. Not because the logic was compli

Stratagems #10: Lena Watched a Team Adopt Her AI Template. Leo Didn't Know the Knife Was in the Contract.

"Show a smile, hide the blade." Conceal a Dagger in a Smile Previously on this series: #5: Leo Walked Into a Burning House. He Walked Out With a Client. — Leo drove out at 3 AM to fix a competitor's outage and won the deal with raw technical skill. But his CEO told him to write a process doc because

Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition — $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners! Submissions Due July 13 at 6:59 AM UTC.

Hello! We're kicking off another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your weekend. We know the submission window is tight, so we've set the timing to ensure that no matter where you are in the world, you'll have the majority of your Saturday and Sunday to particip

Should I quit IT or just live through the burnout?

Some of you may have noticed I disappeared a bit from the community over the last couple of weeks. Well, first of all, I've been on holiday. I was travelling through Iceland, admiring its breathtaking landscapes, enjoying nature (I saw whales, reindeer, and puffins!), trying local food, and bathing

Unboxable in Tech: The Evidence Locker

Eleven exhibits, last time. A career that kept refusing to fit inside a single box — trainer, restaurant owner, postal worker, developer, school aide, developer again — and a closing question I didn't have an answer to: whose problem was that, mine or the box's. I still don't have a clean answer. Bu

The Best AI Code Review Tool for VS Code: A Hands-On Look at Qodo 🔥

Have you ever generated code using AI in an IDE, deployed it to production, and noticed bugs you hadn't seen before? Sounds familiar, doesn't it? With the development of artificial intelligence, debugging is becoming easier, on the one hand, and more difficult, on the other. You're too lazy to doubl

Stratagems #9: Lena and P Watched Two AI Suppliers Fight. The Logs Said Neither Was Clean.

Watch the fires burning on the far shore. Don't cross until they've burned themselves out. Watch the Fires Burning Across the River Previously on this series: #3: Lena Walked Into an AI Deal. She Walked Out With Three Borrowed Knives. — Lena stopped a bad AI procurement by borrowing three knives. Th

Ownership: do "temos um rojão na mão" até "não precisa mais pensar nisso"

É aquele famoso "ou faz direito ou não faz" que todo dev deveria respeitar desde o inicio dos seus estudos. 1. Prólogo 2. Entenda o problema real 3. Projete antes de codar 4. Execute 5. Verifique (em produção) 6. Comunique 7. Acompanhe É muita coisa. E olha que ainda tem mais. Acho que toda vez que

A New Developer Platform for Agent-Human Collaboration

We've entered a new coding paradigm. Agents can now generate full features at a pace that outstrips traditional engineering workflows, but the systems we use to review, understand, and ship software still assume humans wrote every line. For decades, the software development lifecycle was paced by hu

✨Cool Effects, TTS, and Fun Animations (AI Avatar v15: VS Code and Chrome Extension)

Intro AI Avatar is a completely free app that lets your VRoid (VRM) 3D avatar animate in response to AI chat and the Enter key in VS Code and Chrome (Edge). AI Avatar's mission is to cheer developers and everyone and make them happy. There are 4 big updates to AI Avatar since the last version. Sup

Has the audience for technical articles dropped?

Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that articles on dev.to don't get as many reads/views as they used to before? I know that since the rise of AI, more and more people have replaced actually reading with AI snippets or AI summaris. This means a generally reduced audience in technical articles. B

The Next DEV Weekend Challenge Launches on July 9 - 13. Mark Your Calendar!

We're back with another installment of the DEV Weekend Challenge! If you missed the earlier editions, these are short-form, high-energy challenges designed to fit right into your weekend. We're giving you the heads-up now so you can clear your schedule! Our challenge prompt will be revealed at launc

you stopped reading the docs. now you don't understand the systems.

I didn't go to a university for computer science. I have a B.Tech in Geophysics. What I know about software, I built by reading. Documentation, source code, GitHub issues, changelogs, RFC threads that went nowhere, blog posts from 2014 that were half-wrong but made me think. No bootcamp. No structur

AI Receptionist vs Human Receptionist: Cost, ROI, Accuracy & Real-World Performance (2026)

Introduction: The Phone That Never Stops Ringing This scene plays out tens of thousands of times per day across healthcare facilities in the United States, India, Europe, and the Middle East. It is not a staffing failure; it is a structural one. The phone-based front desk was designed for a world wi

My React Search Box Froze on Every Keystroke. I Fixed It by Stealing Python's #1 Scope Rule.

One search box made my whole React dashboard feel broken. Every keypress landed late. Almost 300ms late. My first instinct was the same one a lot of React developers have: memoize everything. useMemo? useCallback? Wrap half the app in React.memo and hope the smoke clears? That was my first instinct.

It's You.

To start off, I appreciate the community support I have received on the post about being behind. I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matter? Achievement that feels shallow on paper FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Your Career Matters. So Does the Person Building It.

TL;DR Tech has taught me many things over the years. It taught me how to learn new technologies, build projects, apply for opportunities, and keep growing. What it didn't teach me was something that turned out to be just as important: how to take care of myself while doing all of those things. For a

Você recebeu acesso ao projeto. E agora?

"Bem-vindo ao time! Aqui está o acesso ao repositório." Quando cheguei no meu primeiro dia, imaginei que esse seria o momento de começar a desenvolver. Mas, na prática, o primeiro desafio foi bem diferente. Foi algo muito mais simples e, ao mesmo tempo, muito mais difícil: Consegui rodar o projeto.

Top 5 AI UI Design Tools in 2026: I Tested Them All With the Same Prompt

Looking for the best AI UI design tool in 2026? I tested Flowstep, Google Stitch, Figma Make, Lovable, and Base44 with the exact same SaaS project management prompt to compare UI quality, design consistency, code generation, developer workflow, Figma integration, and overall usability. If you've sea

6 Stories, 6 People, 1/6 of the Way — An Honest Check-In on the 36 Stratagems Series