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A wind-down companion? An offline file sorter? If it saves effort and runs on open-source AI, it's fair game.

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 19

Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Slow and Steady! $2,850 in Prizes Across 21 Winners.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #productivity

7 min read

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A humbling reminder that passing tests can lie

Dhruv Jani

Oct 24

I'm Not on the DEV Team. I Still Debugged Their Missing Badges From Public Code. (And My First Test Was Wrong.)

#opensource #ruby #rails #testing

6 min read

Built through severe pain to win the top prize

Giorgi Kobaidze

Oct 25

I Earned a Seat at GitHub Universe. It'll Stay Empty, and That's Not Fair

#conference #github

3 min read

Readers debate using AI as a communication shield

Adam - The Developer ✨

Oct 22

Don't Be a Proxy Between Me and Your AI

#discuss #ai #career #programming

7 min read

AI analytics troubleshooting and shop debugging

Anna Villarreal

Oct 25

👻 The $249 Ghost Sale

#google #webdev #rails #analytics

5 min read

Surprise UI bugs and optimistic updates added

Puneet-Kumar2010

Oct 24

Day 22 of Building Crowdwide: I Thought UI Polish Would Be Easy, BUT I WAS WRONGGGGG 😭

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

Harness Engineering 101 resource stands out

Hemapriya Kanagala for The DEVengers

Oct 23

Dev Opportunity Radar #22: $50K Basis Fellowship, Perplexity AI Research Fellowship, and FC Barcelona Analytics Hackathon

#discuss #community #opportunities #resources

11 min read

Karthigayan Devan for Google Developer Experts

Oct 25

Postmortem: The Tuesday Our AI Bill Had No Owner

#discuss #vertexai #sre #ai

14 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

vigneshwar

Oct 25

I Hired a Sloth to Read My GitHub Inbox While I Sleep

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

8 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 25

Train Gemma 4 on Its Own Cut-Short Answers: Half the Tokens on an 8 GB RTX 3050

#gemma #llamacpp #machinelearning #finetuning

11 min read

Alex Georgiev

Oct 25

Valkey 9.2's new rdbcompression lz4 setting cuts a 1M-row RDB from 178MB to 35MB

#valkey #database #performance #devops

6 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Abeera Lodhi

Oct 25

Slow Post: planning five DEV posts took me 67 minutes, so now two open models do it while I sleep

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #machinelearning

13 min read

Includes a tricky broadcast K/V debugging story

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 24

Gemma 4 on a 4 GB GPU in Plain PyTorch: From Out of Memory to Faster Than llama.cpp

#gemma #pytorch #cuda #quantization

13 min read

Exposes flaws in human testing assumptions

Debashish Ghosal

Oct 25

Three Times My Test Failed and the LLM Was Right

#ai #programming #llm #testing

6 min read

Ishaan

Oct 25

Sloth: commit messages from a model that lives in the binary

#hf26challenge #devchallenge #opensource #ai

4 min read

TECHDEV

Oct 25

Your agent isn't running out of context because of one big file

#typescript #mcp #ai #node

3 min read

Features sparks and CRT-style TV animations

Muhammad Ahmad

Oct 24

I turned my portfolio into a playground (plug a theme into a display to open it)

#showdev #webdev #nextjs #react

1 min read

flisk

Oct 25

Bubbles: a new kind of software, where one reply becomes a running stack

#devops #grok #ai #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Benny

Oct 24

I'm not getting up: a voice remote for YouTube that runs fully offline (and understands Pidgin)

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

4 min read