The latest articles on DEV Community by keib918 (@kei_real). https://dev.to/kei_real https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4225707%2F0c543d1a-7db9-4981-b962-f75f18d77567.png https://dev.to/kei_real en keib918 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:19:29 +0000 https://dev.to/kei_real/how-do-you-stop-bots-from-deciding-vim-vs-emacs-building-a-one-human-one-vote-poll-1hal https://dev.to/kei_real/how-do-you-stop-bots-from-deciding-vim-vs-emacs-building-a-one-human-one-vote-poll-1hal <p>Every "which tool is better" poll on the internet has the same problem: the result says more about who brought the most bots and alt accounts than about what people actually use.</p> <p>So I built <strong><a href="https://pollreal.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pollreal</a></strong>: 2–4 candidates, 24 hours, and every vote is one verified human.</p> <h2> How a vote is protected </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Phone once, passkey every time.</strong> You verify a phone number once (only a one-way hash is stored). After that, every vote is signed with a passkey on your own device — fingerprint, face or screen lock.</li> <li> <strong>One vote per device</strong>, and VPN / data-centre traffic is refused.</li> <li> <strong>No bandwagon.</strong> While a poll is open, only people who already voted see the split. After 24 hours the result is public, with an age and gender breakdown (small groups hidden).</li> </ul> <h2> What you see </h2> <ul> <li>Each candidate gets an AI-written card that summarises the maker's official pages, with links to the sources.</li> <li>Results are drawn as one bar — like a fighting-game health bar — so you can see how close it was.</li> <li>A ranking per category using the Bradley–Terry model (the method behind Chatbot Arena), with 95% ranges: <a href="https://pollreal.com/rank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pollreal.com/rank</a> </li> </ul> <h2> Open questions </h2> <p>I wrote down what's in place and what I haven't settled — brigades vs. real fans, bandwagon effects, the ranking method: <a href="https://github.com/pollreal/polls/blob/main/FAIRNESS.md" rel="noopener noreferrer">FAIRNESS.md</a>. I'd love for people to poke holes in it.</p> <p>Closed polls so far include VS Code vs Vim vs Neovim vs Emacs and PostgreSQL vs MySQL vs MongoDB vs SQLite. Results can be read without signing up.</p> buildinpublic security webdev