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Week 3 of Hacktoberfest is live and the theme is Slow and Steady. Every challenge is a fresh start, so it's not too late to jump in.

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

Cover image for How to Become a Tech Conference Speaker (And Why You Might Regret It)

Real experiences from recent events like JS Poland

Sylwia Laskowska

Oct 21

How to Become a Tech Conference Speaker (And Why You Might Regret It)

#techtalks #career #speaking

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11 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

Covers new APIs, Effect edge cases, and OSS usage

nyaomaru

Oct 21

is-kit Reached 100 Stars ⭐🎉 Here’s What Changed Since 50

#typescript #opensource #webdev #frontend

7 min read

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

Thomas Bonnet

Oct 21

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #javascript

7 min read

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

Paul Horton

Oct 21

I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #tigerdata #githubcopilot

5 min read

Olivier Bourgeois for Google Cloud

Oct 22

Scaling stateful Gemini 4 Argon agent sessions on GKE: Connection draining, startup boost, and session persistence

#kubernetes #ai #gke #googlecloud

8 min read

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Oct 21

I wrote a 10,000-line Windows security suite in one Python file. Here's how the crypto container works, and ₹50 if you can break it

#challenge #security #python #cryptography

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4 min read

A curated spotlight on overlooked tech gems

Dhruv Jani

Oct 22

Buried Reads #1: Five Good Posts That Deserve More Attention

#discuss #writing #devjournal #career

5 min read

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

Dhruv Jani

Oct 21

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

14 min read

christine

Oct 22

Patch Your PHP: What PHP2Shell Means for WordPress Sites

#php #security #wordpress #cve

5 min read

Dev Stack Hub

Oct 21

I Explored Respan Gateway: A Plugin-First, Open-Source LLM Gateway

#discuss #ai #llm #opensource

8 min read

Why gateways fail without prior policy sequencing

Ken W Alger

Oct 22

Enterprise AI Governance in 2026

#ai #architecture #security #devops

8 min read

Silent prompt failure yields plausible fake wine

Ken W Alger

Oct 22

Nothing Reported It

#ai #testing #programming #devops

11 min read

Unix flat-files beat memory compaction

Randal L. Schwartz for Google Developer Experts

Oct 22

926 Steps, Two Lobotomies, and Zero Nudges: Flight-Testing the Commitment Machine Across Gemini, Claude, and GPT-OSS

#ai #programming #architecture #unix

16 min read

Athreya aka Maneshwar

Oct 22

PHP2Shell: Your Code Was Fine, The Engine Was Not

#php #security #webdev #devops

12 min read

Shai Almog

Oct 22

Smaller Simpler Maven Projects

#java #mobile #android #ios

3 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 22

Android 16 on a 4.9 Kernel: LineageOS 23.2 on the Pixel 3a

#android #linux #kernel #lineageos

9 min read

DevOps Daily

Oct 22

Log Aggregation Pipeline Explained: Follow One Log Line and Run the Incident in Your Browser

#observability #devops #sre #logging

6 min read