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Touch grass. Then build an app for it.

Week 1 of Hacktoberfest is live. Use open-weight models or local inference to build something for the great outdoors.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 5

Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass! $2,450 in Prizes Across 17 Winners.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

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Addresses the rising AI noise in hiring

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ

Oct 5

Why you still need a Website Portfolio, even though everyone can Vibe Code it.

#discuss #community #showdev #a11y

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7 min read

Relatable humor about coding struggles

Ben Halpern

Oct 5

Meme Monday

#discuss #jokes #watercooler

1 min read

Features four ready-to-download desktop apps

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Oct 6

Your GitHub README Isn't a Profile. It's a Storefront. (Here Are the 5 Rules I Used

#showdev #github #design #webdev

4 min read

Painful lessons from early deployers

James Anderson

Oct 6

Your AI Agent Will Do Something Terrible. Here's How to Survive It.

#ai #agents #security #webdev

7 min read

Marceli Pawliński

Oct 6

Curiosity Over Comfort

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

4 min read

Type assertions mask runtime risks

S M Tahosin

Oct 6

Why Your TypeScript Code Still Crashes in Production

#discuss #typescript #javascript #beginners

7 min read

Martin Omander for Google Cloud

Oct 7

Run, Hunt, Hack: Join the Cloud Run Hackathon on Product Hunt

#hackathon #cloud

1 min read

Ruchika Goel for Google AI

Oct 7

stop-using-complex-urls-for-your-demos.us-central1.run.app

#googlecloud #cloud #software #programming

1 min read

Surprising pitfalls with Postgres and Node signals

Shubhra Pokhariya

Oct 6

Aborting a Fetch Doesn't Stop Your Node.js Server. Here's What Does.

#node #javascript #postgres #backend

8 min read

Anna Villarreal

Oct 7

⚡ Proprietary RJ50 Cable Reveals the Truth ⚡

#hardware #rj50 #powergrid #iot

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Rohit Purkait

Oct 7

I built an AI that only works when my phone is in my pocket

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

8 min read

James Anderson

Oct 7

I Think We're Forgetting How to Be Bored

#discuss #mentalhealth #productivity #ai

7 min read

Info Inlet

Oct 7

I let my AI agents merge to production. Once.

#ai #webdev #career #devops

9 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jen Looper for Her AI Studio

Oct 6

Build a Tiny Virtual Pet on Arduino in 60 Minutes 🐾

#arduino #beginners #programming #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Harsh

Oct 6

I Tested 3 AI Coding Tools for Slopsquatting. Here's How Many Fake Packages They Invented.

#discuss #security #ai #webdev

4 min read

Madalitso Nyemba

Oct 6

I built a video editor that renders sharp 1080p MP4s entirely in the browser

#showdev #webdev #javascript #laravel

6 min read

jsmanifest

Oct 7

Next.js Typed Routes in 2026: Enabling `typedRoutes` Experimentally and What It Catches That TypeScript Alone Misses

#typescript #nextjs #javascript #webdev

11 min read

Kabir Hossain

Oct 7

How I scrape any website in under 5 minutes (Python + Playwright)

#python #tutorial #webdev #webscraping

4 min read