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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

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

Prioritizing backend logic over UI proves vital

Puneet-Kumar2010

Oct 23

Day 21 of Building Crowdwide — Finally, Time to Polish the UI! 🎉

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 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

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

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Oct 24

ASNIPP: Free Snipping Tool Alternative for Windows 11

#showdev #windows #productivity #python

11 min read

Highlights the impossible burden on micro-teams

James Anderson

Oct 24

Hours, Not Weeks: How AI Rewrote the Clock of Software Security

#discuss #security #ai #startup

5 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

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

Held-out tests reveal tools tie on unseen data

Efe Genc

Oct 24

Humanizer has about 60,000 stars. On 12 public tasks my linter plugin scored 2.67 higher

#ai #opensource #claude #writing

6 min read

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

Souvik Biswas

Oct 24

Sloth Reads: an open model reads my read-later pile overnight, then reads me the good ones

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

5 min read

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

Uses Z3 SMT provers and kernel sandboxes

Sam LABBE

Oct 23

Agents should never hold your API keys. NVIDIA just open-sourced the runtime that enforces it

#ai #security #agents #opensource

6 min read

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

Aditya

Oct 24

SlothOps: A Local AI Caretaker for Your Codebase

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

3 min read

Benchmarks test recall, not revision

Shaan

Oct 24

Your agent's memory is quietly going stale

#ai #agents #llm #machinelearning

6 min read

Anna Villarreal

Oct 24

👾 Nested Bookmarks Organizer for Chrome w/Custom Ticker

#webdev #themes #customization #browser

3 min read

Helder Burato Berto

Oct 24

My AI Coding Workflow, v3

#claudecode #ai #programming #development

5 min read

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