Hacktoberfest 2026: Making Open Models Smarter with Tools, MCP, and Skills with SerpApi

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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

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

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 🦥

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

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Oct 22

Encryption, Explained Properly: AES vs ChaCha20 vs Argon2id (and How to Actually Combine Them)

#security #cryptography #python #tutorial

12 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

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

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

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

102

4 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 22

Docker Containers Aren't Virtual Machines: How Namespaces, cgroups, and OverlayFS Actually Work Under the Hood

#docker #devops #linux #architecture

13 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 21

In Ruby, Objects Don't Have Methods. How Method Lookup Actually Works.

#ruby #programming #webdev #oop

7 min read

Enforces explicit approval gates before edits land

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Oct 22

One Dev, Four Specialists: My Agent Team for OpenCode 🧑‍💻

#ai #agents #llm #programming

5 min read

Dimitris Kyrkos

Oct 22

"I'm 93% confident" is a string, not a probability

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #programming

3 min read

Covers everything from Docker to Cloud Run

Varshith V Hegde

Oct 22

PHP2Shell, explained: the two critical PHP bugs every team needs to patch

#php #security #webdev #programming

8 min read

Jessica Doering

Oct 21

I Fixed WebGPU on Linux. Then Forgot How I Did It.

#linux #webdev #ai #devjournal

7 min read

Alex Georgiev

Oct 22

Git 2.56's last-modified command is fast on one directory and slow on scattered files

#git #devops #performance #opensource

6 min read

JimmyLiao for Google Developer Experts

Oct 22

Building a Cross-Model Collaborative Workflow with Google Antigravity

#gemini #devtools #programming #agents

5 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