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Hacktoberfest Week 1 theme is Touch Grass. Build with open-source AI and compete for $2,450 across 17 winners.

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

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

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

Relatable humor about coding struggles

Ben Halpern

Oct 5

Meme Monday

#discuss #jokes #watercooler

1 min read

Insights from an OpenAI researcher's PhD job hunt

Hemapriya Kanagala

Oct 5

The Parts of a Job Search We Don't See

#discuss #community #career #mentalhealth

17 min read

Developers debate dropping early abstraction

Mika Flowers

Oct 5

What "best practice" did you quietly stop following?

#discuss #watercooler #programming #webdev

1 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 6

Why Your TypeScript Code Still Crashes in Production

#discuss #typescript #javascript #beginners

7 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

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

Real-world migration test on default stacks

Adam - The Developer ✨

Oct 6

Redis vs Dragonfly: A Hands-On Comparison

#redis #programming #architecture #performance

8 min read

Distinguishing tamper-proof from truth-proof

James Anderson

Oct 5

The Witness Was the Suspect: Why AI Audit Logs Can't Be Trusted

#discuss #ai #security #agents

9 min read

A native C# bundler eliminating runtime costs

Florian Rappl

Oct 6

My OSS Projects: Netpack

#dotnet #webdev #javascript #opensource

15 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Dhruv Jani

Oct 4

Gift Hunter: An AI Agent That Finds Gifts They’ll Actually Want

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge

4 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 6

Gemma 4 Inference on AWS: Bedrock, SageMaker, GPUs, Inferentia and Trainium Behind One Strands Agent

#aws #ai #machinelearning #gemma

13 min read

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

Dhanush N

Oct 6

TrailNote: an offline photo guesser for birds and plants

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Info Inlet

Oct 6

The scarcest skill on my team has the lowest status: the 'no'

#discuss #ai #webdev #career

9 min read

kuberdenis

Oct 6

Neon vs Supabase vs PlanetScale vs AWS: what Postgres costs in 2026

#aws #cloud #database #postgres

6 min read

Alex Georgiev

Oct 6

Bun 1.4's bun test --parallel cuts a 4-second suite to about 1 second

#javascript #testing #performance #webdev

7 min read